fly-poisoning

Updated: May 5, 2025

We put up sandbags to stop the bullets, but no one had devised a method to stop those winged emissaries of death. Those who died from lead-poisoning were but a score to the hundreds who died of fly-poisoning. This is but a little of what holding on meant to that little force.

R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett - Over There with the Australians