Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
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(13 years, 6 months ago)
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Earl Attlee
My Lords, I believe that this happened under the previous Administration. I am not aware of the case, but I shall write to the noble Earl.
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
My Lords, does my noble friend, in the context of Amman, recall the exchange in 1918 in a military hospital between a visiting general and a Scottish private? The general asked the private where he had been wounded. The private replied topographically, rather than anatomically: “Three miles the Ardnamurchan side of Baghdad, sir”.