J06392
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- J06392
- Photographer
- O'Brien, John Aloysius
- Object type
- Black & white - Film original negative nitrate other
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula
- Date made
- c May 1915
- Credit line
- Donor J O'Brien
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- 202 Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance Brigade (enlisted as Simpson), assisting an unidentified soldier, wounded in the leg, being carried by a donkey. Pte Simpson was later killed by Turkish machine gun fire assisting the wounded, near a location known as Bloody Angle on 19 May 1915. The donkey was referred to by a variety of names, most commonly "Murphy" "Duffy" or the "The Donk".
