Across the Bar. The Story of 'Simpson' The Man with the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's great military hero.

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Yeronga Qld: Ogmios Publications (1994). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi 396pp.). Copiously illustrated in both colour and b/w. Author's inscribed and signed present. copy. Fine. John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892-1915) was an English seaman who jumped ship in Western Australia and enlisted in the AIF in August 1914. He became a legend on Gallipoli for helping wounded men with the aid of a donkey until he was killed.