Fed: Anzac Day's law of diminishing returns

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 23, 2002 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

04-23-2002

Fed: Anzac Day's law of diminishing returns

By Doug Conway, Senior Correspondent

SYDNEY, April 22 AAP - Of the million-plus soldiers who fought at Gallipoli, only one survives.

Tasmanian Alec Campbell, 103, is the last of the 68,000 original Anzacs, and authorities
believe he is the last of the combatants full stop.

Campbell and 16 mates are all that remain of the 416,000 Aussies...

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