But there is not a school-aged child in Australia who hasn’t learnt about John Simpson and his donkey, the youth who would go from this beach to the rocky cliffs of Gallipoli and be forever ...

Now shrouded in Anzac myth, Simpson and his donkey are among the most iconic figures from Gallipoli. The story of the soldier who never carried arms, but spent his time recovering wounded soldiers ...

"After the landing at Gallipoli, Simpson, with his little donkey, worked alone day and night taking water to the front line, and carrying the wounded back to the dressing stations. He and his ...

John Simpson and his donkey in Shrapnel Valley ... Mother and son look incredibly alike in their photos: plain, square-faced, salt of the earth battlers. At 11, Jack left school.

MARK COLVIN: There'll be no Victoria Cross for Simpson or his donkey. For three and a half terrible weeks in 1915, the pair helped ferry wounded ANZACs at Gallipoli to relative safety. On the 19th ...

John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame carried many wounded diggers to safety at Gallipoli, one of them Lesley Roberts' grandfather. Cas Ryan was nursed down Shrapnel Valley ...

As Curran describes it in Not Only A Hero, Simpson “had begun his day as usual, leading his donkey up to the water guard in Shrapnel Gully where he usually had his breakfast. But it wasn’t ready.

who had condoned Simpson's abandonment of the unit and had tied his own Red Cross armband around Simpson's donkey, wrote in his diary on June 1, 1915: "I think we will get a VC for poor Simpson." ...

What should have been a Kiwi Anzac legend about Henry and his mule has been buried under growing Aussie claims about Simpson and his donkey, say researchers. The National War Museum is seizing ...

One of the Australian War Memorial's most iconic sculptures, of Simpson and his donkey, has been craned back into place after a three-year hiatus. Peter Corlett's bronze sculpture had been moved ...