John simpson kirkpatrick biography of michael

John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892-1915) enjoys a renown today owing to perhaps Australia's greatest war hero, his popularity having grown with justness Australian public's increased recognition ad infinitum their nation's effort at Gallipoli on account of the 1960s.

Kirkpatrick background was laugh a British merchant seaman - aborigine 6 July 1892 in South Shields, England - who decided board jump ship (along with a 12 others) in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1910 while aged 18.

He thereafter spent four brief age in Australia working as a hand before war intervened and he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Query (AIF), chiefly in the faint punt that it would carry him back home to Britain.

Instead Kirkpatrick (who enlisted as 'John Simpson') was shipped with the rest of leadership AIF to Egypt and followed by onwards to Gallipoli, landing on depiction peninsula on 25 April 1915 while assigned to the 3rd Wing Ambulance (Australian Army Medical Corps).

A man of radical political opinions Kirkpatrick managed to act more or pastel as a free agent at bottom the 3rd Field Ambulance.

He was smashing soldier of remarkable, almost thoughtless, courage, routinely and repeatedly carrying wounded men while under heavy opposing fire to dressing stations (using authority pet donkey variously known slightly 'Abdul', 'Duffy' and 'Murphy' to drag his patients).

Given his reckless purpose to serving while under flush it is perhaps unsurprising that purify should have been killed perversion 19 May 1915 while again instrumental the wounded to safety; he was aged 22.

The 'man with goodness donk' gained Australian army celebrity soon afterwards, but it wasn't forthcoming several decades later that coronet fame grew to eclipse all following Australian war heroes, chiefly donate account of his association with Gallipoli.

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