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Description: | inscription, engraving, JOHN SIMPSON
KIRKPATRICK SERVED AS
202 PRIVATE
J. SIMPSON
AUST. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
19 MAY 1915 AGE 22
HE GAVE HIS LIFE
THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE
A colour photograph of the grave of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, killed in 1915. Kirkpatrick was a stretcher bearer for the Australian Army during the First World War but was originally from South Shields. He fought and died in the Gallipoli campaign. He is known best as 'the man with the donkey'
Material: paper | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.socialhistory.454298 | Go to resource |
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