2PPCLI’s MCpl Timothy Wilson is buried in the military section of the Brandon Cemetery following his death in 2006 deployed overseas during the Afghan War. The first Canadian woman to die in combat on May 17, 2006 during the Afghan War, 1RCHA’s Capt Nichola Goddard is buried in the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa — Beechwood Cemetery. Photo Maj Daniel Walton/Sr Fleet Chaplain CFB Esquimalt 

 Shilo Stag

In Flanders Fields is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician LCol John McCrae, who was also a Canadian poet, author, artist and soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium.
Born on Nov. 30, 1872, in Guelph, Ont. He’s best known for writing the famous war memorial poem, before he died of pneumonia on Jan. 28, 1918 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. His place of burial is Wimereux Cemetery.
In Flanders Fields memorializes the April 1915 battle in Belgium’s Ypres salient. For 17 days, LCol McCrae tended to those injured in the battle.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, tho’ poppies grow
In Flanders’ fields.

LEST WE FORGET — those soldiers we lost while they were deployed from CFB Shilo to Afganistan:

Pte Garrett Chidley, 21, Cambridge, Ont., 2PPCLI, KIA on Dec. 30, 2009

Sgt Prescott Shipway, 36, Saskatoon, SK, 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 7, 2008

Cpl Andrew Grenon, 23, Windsor, Ont., 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 3, 2008

Cpl Michael Seggie, 21, Winnipeg, 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 3, 2008

Pte Chadwick Horn, 21, Calgary, AB, 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 3, 2008

MCpl Joshua Roberts, 29, Prince Albert, SK, 2PPCLI, KIA on Aug. 9, 2008

Cpl Jim Arnal, 25, Winnipeg, 2PPCL, KIA on July 18, 2008

Capt Richard Leary, 32, Brantford, Ont., 2PPCLI, KIA on June 3, 2008

Pte Terry Street, 24, Surrey, BC, 2PPCLI, KIA on April 4, 2008

Sgt Jason Boyes, 32, Napanee, Ont., 2PPCLI, KIA on March 16, 2008

Bdr Jeremie Ouellet, 22, Matane, Que., 1RCHA, KIA on March 11, 2008

Capt Jefferson Francis, 37, New Brunswick, 1RCHA, KIA on July 4, 2007

Pte David Byers, 22, Espanola, Ont., 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 18, 2006

Cpl Shane Keating, 30, Dalmaney, SK, 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 18, 2006

Cpl Keith Morley CD, 30, Winnipeg, 2PPCLI, KIA on Sept. 18, 2006

Cpl David Braun, 27, Raymore, SK, 2PPCLI, KIA on Aug. 22, 2006

MCpl Jeffrey Walsh, 33, Regina, SK, 2PPCLI, KIA on Aug. 9, 2006

Capt Nichola Goddard MSM, 26, Calgary, AB, 1RCHA, KIA on May 17, 2006

MCpl Timothy Wilson, 30, Grande Praire, AB, 2PPCLI, KIA on March 5, 2006

Cpl Paul Davis, 28, Bridgewater, NS, 2PPCLI, KIA on March 2, 2006