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Son of Sarah Simpson Kirkpatrick, of 14, Bertram St., South Shields, Durham, England, and the late Robert Kirkpatrick. Private J S Kirkpatrick, served as Private John Simpson and became known as the "Man with the Donkey".


Simpson landed with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance on 25 April and by the following day he was leading a donkey carrying lightly wounded from the front line down Monash and Shrapnel Valleys to the beach. In the first three weeks of the campaign he became a familiar sight, always cheerful and oblivious of danger. Simpson was killed on 19 May and was Mentioned in Despatches.

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I apologise for not being able to include more information on soldiers from South Shields, to attempt to include more areas then I intend would have been a daunting task. 


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http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/621936/KIRKPATRICK,%20JOHN%20SIMPSON