John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.

They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war ... and from beyond the UK and Europe – who wrote powerfully about the conflict. War poetry is often read as history by proxy and ...

It was there in 1917 that Owen was treated for shell shock, and where he met fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Steve said: “We chose a limb from a sycamore tree growing alongside a beautiful ...