H16023 Accession Number: H16023

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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. "Murphy and his donkey". 202 Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick who enlisted under the name of Simpson and was known as both Simpson and Murphy, at Anzac. (Men who served with Kirkpatrick in the 3rd Field Ambulance have declared that this is not a photograph of him. For authentic photographs of Kirkpatrick see A02826, A02827 and A03113, A03114, A03115, A03116, A03117. (Print made from negative lent by Mr A. J. Withers).

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Accession Number
H16023
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
1915
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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