Ocean Road, 'Man With The Donkey'
Ocean Road, 'Man With The Donkey'
HER Number
10899
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Ocean Road, 'Man With The Donkey'
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Monument
Site Type: Specific
Commemorative Monument
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
Date unknown. By Robert Olley. This statue commemorates John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who was born in South Shields in 1892. He was a member of the Australian Army Medical Corps and carried many dead and wounded soldiers with his donkey from the battleground at Gallipoli during the First World War. He died at Gallipoli on 9th May 1915. LOCAL LIST
Easting
436500
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ436500567300
Sources
Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 83; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 174-5; North East War Memorials Project www.newmp.org.uk S86.014; SOUTH TYNESIDE LOCAL LIST REVIEW 2011: REFERENCE NUMBER: LSHA/27/SS