Statue at Shrine of Remembrance - Melbourne JOHN SIMPSON  KIRKPATRICK  SERVED AS   202 PRIVATE   J SIMPSON, AUST. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, 19TH MAY 1915         AGE 22 " HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE. " AWM J06392 John Simpson Kirkpatrick became known as "the man with the donkey" at Gallipoli in the space of just over three weeks. Using a donkey to carry wounded soldiers from the firing lines down to the dressing station at ANZAC Cove, he gained a reputation for being undaunted by enemy fire. Simpson was killed killed by a sniper's bullet in Shrapnel Gully on May 19th, 1915, aged 22. Less than one month after the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915. His name and deeds became an essential part of the Gallipoli legend. Source - AWM Padre George Green, who lead Simpson's burial service, later said : "If ever there was  a  man deserve the Victoria Cross it was Simpson. I often remember now the scene I saw frequently in shrapnel Gully,  of that cheerful soul calmly walking down the gully with a Red Cross armlet tied round the donkey's head. That gully was under direct  fire from the enemy almost all the time." This site honours the memory of  Jack Kirkpatrick Simpson . Simpson was one of many heroic men who deserved but was never awarded a bravery medal Read more about his story at these links

Australia's Favourite Hero John Simpson Kirkpatrick - Anzac House NOT ONLY A HERO - ANZAC DAY.ORG On The Trail of the Man With the Donkey - AWM What was John Simpson Kirkpatrick really like? Find out by looking at documents from his life and times. Click Here Kirkpatricks  Memorial  - Tyneside