In a letter written to his mother, McCrae described the battle as a " nightmare ": " For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have had our clothes off, nor our boots even, except occasionally.

McCrae, a staunch supporter of the empire and the war effort, was pleased with the impact his poem had in the election.

The years of war had worn McCrae down, however.

The red poppies that McCrae referred to had been associated with war since the Napoleonic Wars when a writer of that time first noted how the poppies grew over the graves of soldiers.

He was well received by his fellow writers, George Gordon McCrae, Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and others, but Kendall had none of the qualities of a successful journalist, though some of his work was accepted by the press and George Robertson published his second volume, Leaves from Australian Forests, soon after his arrival.

It is true that he had the authority of Kendall's poem " On a Street ", but years afterwards George Gordon McCrae told the present writer that Kendall " made the worst of everything including himself ".

McCrae was a good friend to Kendall and he had many other friends in spite of his retiring and sensitive nature.

James Garner had been offered the role of Augustus McCrae in the original miniseries but had to turn it down for health reasons.

The congregation the church houses was formed by members of School Wynd Church who had elected the radical David McCrae of Greenock to succeed Gilfillan as minister.

However, McCrae, whose views against the concept of eternal damnation Gilfillan had supported, had been declared to no longer be a minister by the UP Church.

Andrew McCrae had the run for about 8 years until the Burrells took it over in 1851 and remained for about 70 years.

The Adams family had a guest house, Hopetoun House, named after the Governor ( a frequent guest ), on the site of the car wash near McCrae Plaza.

McCrae was called Dromana until about 70 years ago, as the steamers had made Dromana's location well known.

Having returned to Austin, McCrae learns that his beloved Clara Forsythe intends to marry his rival, horse trader Bob Allen ( though she is not married yet, as Scull's wife had led McCrae to believe ).

Whereas Levinson ( 1978 ) found that 80 % of middle-aged participants had a crisis, and Ciernia ( 1985 ) reported that 70 % of men in midlife said they had a crisis ( Shek, 1996 ) others could not replicate those findings including Shek ( 1996 ), Kruger ( 1994 ), McCrae and Costa ( 1990 ), and Whitbourne ( 2010 ).

McCrae had been a successful inside-forward for Charlton Athletic and Middlesbrough in his playing days.

Other artists who had an impact on the label, or on one of its many subsidiary labels, include Betty Wright ( on Alston ), Benny Latimore ( Glades ), Peter Brown ( Drive ), Foxy, Kracker ( Dash ), Jimmy " Bo " Horne ( Sunshine Sound ), Timmy Thomas ( Glades ), Gwen McCrae ( Cat ), T-Connection ( Dash ), Bobby Caldwell ( Clouds ), and Anita Ward ( Juana ).

The Duke had an illegitimate daughter, Georgiana McCrae.

Due to its location on the increasingly commercially developed Merivale strip, and its reduced importance since the completion of John McCrae Secondary School in Barrhaven, efforts had been made by the province to close the school in the late 1990s as a means of saving money.

Less verbose and chatty than McCrae, Call works long and hard and sees no reason why others should not do the same.

* Royal Canadian Legion web page about John McCrae, In Flanders Fields, and the custom of wearing poppies

His son Hugh McCrae, also a poet, produced a volume of memoirs ( My Father and My Father's Friends ) about George and his association with such literary figures as Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Richard Henry Horne and Marcus Clarke.

One day McCrae was called out into the passage to see Kendall, an agitated, trembling figure who told him he must go, he could not stand it any longer.

A pathetic letter is still in existence, in which Kendall tells McCrae that he could not go to Gordon's funeral because he was penniless.

Along with such literary figures as Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, George Gordon McCrae and Marcus Clarke he was a member of the Yorick Club where members met and discussed literature.

McCrae makes it to Miles City, but dies of blood poisoning, despite having one of his legs amputated.

In 1891, Archibald delivered a paper entitled " Ancient Wreck at Warrnambool ," to the Royal Geographical Society, and this appears to mark the end of his active involvement. In 1910, having conducted further research, George Gordon McCrae also delivered a paper to the Geographical Society.

McCrae performed the burial service himself, at which time he noted how poppies quickly grew around the graves of those who died at Ypres.

McCrae was moved to the medical corps and stationed in Boulogne, France, in June 1915 where he was named lieutenant-colonel in charge of medicine at the Number 3 Canadian General Hospital.

The band's " Queen of Clubs ", which featured uncredited vocals by McCrae, was a hit in the UK, peaking at # 7, and they went on tour there in 1975.

McCrae worked on his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto in 1892 – 93.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph is a letter he wrote on 18 July 1893 to Laura Kains while he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

McCrae served in the artillery during the Second Boer War, and upon his return was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Vermont, where he taught until 1911 ; he also taught at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

From June 1, 1915 McCrae was ordered away from the artillery to set up No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Camiers near Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France.

On January 28, 1918, while still commanding No. 3 Canadian General Hospital ( McGill ) at Boulogne, McCrae died of pneumonia with " extensive pneumococcus meningitis ".

In 1906, George Gordon McCrae wrote two letters to a local schoolmaster at Dromana, Mr G. H.

His subject was his earliest recollections of an idyllic boyhood spent at Arthur's Seat Run, location of the historic McCrae Homestead on the coast of the southern shores of the Bay, part of Mornington Peninsula.

They purchased the pre-emptive right of 640 acres, which extended from the McCrae coast to the park boundary at the south end of Cook St.

British-Australian artist Georgiana McCrae produced many of her paintings at Cape Schanck.

Brother Dr. John McCrae ( Θ Ξ ' 94 ), a serviceman in the Canadian army, who like so many other men did not return at the close of conflict.

Robert Duvall patterned the role of Gus McCrae in the television series Lonesome Dove after Baugh, particularly his arm movements, after visiting him at his home in Texas in 1988.

McCrae died 15 August 1927 at Hawthorn in Melbourne, survived by four of his six children, including Dorothy Frances Perry, also an author.

At least four sets of researchers have worked independently for decades on this problem and have identified generally the same Big Five factors: Tupes & Cristal were first, followed by Goldberg at the Oregon Research Institute, Cattell at the University of Illinois, and Costa and McCrae at the National Institutes of Health.

McCrae was then brought back to end another period of failure at the Warden Street Showgrounds.