Featured Story
Featured Story
The FEATURED STORY pays tribute to a person and/or event connected to 1 W.A.G.S Ballarat.
The story commemorates the valiant RAAF 1 W.A.G.S trainees who served in WW2 in all theatres of war – those who lost their lives and those who returned.
The FEATURED STORY honours -
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
Author of 'In Flanders Fields'
John McCrae was a Canadian physician, soldier, and poet who wrote the famous World War I poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was inspired by the death of a friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who had been killed at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Its powerful imagery of poppies growing over the graves of fallen soldiers helped establish the red poppy as a global symbol of remembrance. McCrae died in 1918 from pneumonia while serving in the war.
