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John Simpson Kirkpatrick was born on the 6th of July 1892, in South Shields, England
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John Simpson Kirkpatrick Bio
By Tom Theodore
6 Red
Buckley
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He started sailing after his Father was paralysed in a car accident and later died in 1909.
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February 1910, he joined the crew of “YEDA”
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Simpson, who joined the Army only 8 month ago, landed on ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli 9 month’s after enlisting as a “C” section stretcher bearer.
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.” He breathed his last breath in shrapnel gully 19th of May, 1915 at the of 22. He grave reads: JOHN SIMPSON
KIRKPATRICK SERVED AS
202 PRIVATE
J SIMPSON,
AUST. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS,
19TH MAY 1915 AGE 22 HE GAVE HIS LIFE
THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE.
