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Lt. Alexis Helmer was a close friend of McCrae's whose death inspired In Flanders Fields. (McGill University Archives PL 006 409)

Lieutenant Alexis Hannum Helmer in the Great War

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Inspiration for In Flanders Fields Was Lieutenant Alexis Hannum Helmer the inspiration for John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields? What happened at his battlefield grave, and why was it later lost? CEFRG seeks to answer these…