J06392

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".
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