Fed: An Anzac Day first: the passing of the Gallipoli generation

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 24, 2003 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

04-24-2003

Fed: An Anzac Day first: the passing of the Gallipoli generation

By Doug Conway, Senior Correspondent

SYDNEY, April 24 AAP - Australians tomorrow celebrate an Anzac Day unlike any other
- their first without a survivor of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that started a national
tradition.

The death in May last year of 103-year-old Tasmanian Alec Campbell is a poignant reminder
that ...

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