Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Lions led by donkeys" is a phrase used to imply a capable group of individuals are incompetently led. Coined in classical antiquity , the phrase was commonly used after World War I to contrast senior commanders who had led armies, most prominently those of the British Armed Forces , with the men they commanded.
From July until November, 2,750 mules, 1,200 donkeys and 140 ponies were sent to Salonika. By July 1919, over 3,500 mules and 3,000 donkeys had been exported. [ 6 ] A number of rudimentary recruitment posters and leaflets were issued starting in summer of 1916; the posters were issued in English, Greek and Turkish.
The Australian RSPCA, in May 1997 posthumously awarded its Purple Cross to the donkey Murphy for performing outstanding acts of bravery towards humans. [38] In 2011, a play by Valerie Laws entitled The Man and the Donkey premiered at the Customs House in South Shields. [39] The part of John Simpson Kirkpatrick was played by local actor Jamie ...
The Man with the Donkey is a 1938 Australian radio drama by Harry Paull about John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his donkey during World War One. It aired on the ABC on Anzac Day in 1938. [3] The play was produced again on the ABC on Anzac Day in 1945 [4] and 1951. [5]
In 1916, the average loss of sick horses and mules from the Sinai front was approximately 640 per week. They were transported in train loads of thirty trucks, each holding eight horses. Animals which died or were destroyed while on active service were buried 2 miles (3.2 km) from the nearest camp unless this was not practicable.
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 Twitter post reads, "Over the weekend, VSPs Peer/CISM team found two loose donkeys on a rural road. Our troopers and a Henrico sergeant gather and returned the donkeys to their owner.
The Junkers J 1, nicknamed the Blechesel (Tin Donkey or Sheet Metal Donkey), was an experimental monoplane aircraft developed by Junkers.It was the first all-metal aircraft in the world.