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John Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), commonly known as John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance during the Gallipoli campaign – the Allied attempt to capture Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War.
John Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), also known as Jack Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I. He landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 and, on that first night, took a donkey and began carrying wounded from the battle line to the beach for evacuation ...
The Australian troops land at Gallipoli and Murphy brings the wounded back from the trenches on his donkey. He is killed by a Turkish shell while rescuing his 104th man. [8] [9] A highlight of the film was the German spy being thrown off a cliff 50 foot into the water. [10]
Heroes of the Red Cross. Private Simpson, D.C.M., & his donkey at Anzac, from the version of the painting now in the Australian War Memorial Museum, printed by W.J. Bryce, London 1918. Henderson was painted in water-colour as The Man with the Donkey by Horace Moore-Jones. Moore-Jones worked from Jackson's photograph of Henderson, but believed ...
The 3rd Australian Field Ambulance was a company of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division [1] in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. The 3rd Field Ambulance was deployed to Gallipoli, Turkey, on 25 April 1915. It is primarily known for being the company John Simpson Kirkpatrick was registered in. The Field Ambulance ...
In 1987, Corlett won a competition to create a memorial "to commemorate the courage and compassion" of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a stretcher bearer during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. [1] The result was a full size bronze sculpture, Simpson and his donkey, 1915, that now stands outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Simpson and his donkey statue by Peter Corlett outside the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The Anzac spirit or Anzac legend is a concept which suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers possess shared characteristics, specifically the qualities those soldiers allegedly exemplified on the battlefields of World War I. [1]
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