WWI Essex Farm Cemetery is famous for John McCrae poem in Flanders Fields and the grave of Rifleman VJ Strudwick youngest combatant at 15 to be killed

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The CWGC Essex Farm Cemetery during the First World War was a casualty clearing station and is famous for two reasons the first being where Canadian Medical officer Colonel John McCrae was stationed when he wrote the famous poem in Flanders Fields and second it is where young Rifleman VJ Strudwick is buried the youngest combatant at 15 to be killed in action

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Location: Essex Farm, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
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