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Flanders Field

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Flanders Field can refer to:

  • Flanders Fields, the name of World War I battlefields in the medieval County of Flanders, which spans southern Belgium and north-west France.
  • Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, a World War I cemetery on the southeast edge of the town of Waregem, Belgium. Poppy flowers began to grow after the burial of the fallen soldiers.
  • In Flanders Fields, a famous poem about World War I written by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.