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Simpson trained with the AIF and became a stretcher-bearer (non-combatant) with the 3rd Field Ambulance, landing at Gallipoli on APril 25, 1915. Killed about three weeks later, Simpson is best known for his use of a donkey to carry the wounded to safety.

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