“POPPIES THERE”
History Quoted
Poppies certainly grew on the Gallipoli Peninsula, said Mr R. M. Conly, the designer of the Anzac stamp, last evening.
His main reference had been the official history of the Gallipoli campaign by Major F. Waite. Throughout the history there was reference to wild flowers and poppies growing in profusion. One battle had been fought on “the poppy patch.” When Major Waite returned to the peninsula after the war he referred to “fields of crimson poppies swaying in the Aegean spring,” Mr Conly said. On the criticism that the drawing of Anzac Cove was too "civilised,” showing jetties and huts which were not there on the landing day, Mr Conly said he had made the drawing from an official war photograph.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 1
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