Gallipoli Recalled
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LONDON, April 23.
“Flies,” said Earl Attlee yesterday when asked what he remembered most of the Gallipoli campaign.
“Flies on the corpses. Little black ones. They were everywhere,” the 82-year-old former British Prime Minister went on.
“I remember Gallipoli as though it were yesterday. I can still see the flies on the corpses.” Earl Attlee, who served as a subaltern in the Sixth South Lancashire Regiment during Gallipoli, was speaking to reporters at a reception at the Royal United Service Institution in London to mark the fiftieth anniversary on Sunday of the landings.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 16
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