We are marking the beginning of 2005 re-enactment season with an interesting contribution from the other end of the World. During the landing at Gallipoli and fierce fighting between ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) and Turkish army in 1915 one soldier devoted himself to saving wounded. Disregarding the danger he retreaved on the back of his donkey countless men from the gulleys and hills of this infamous theatre of war before after few weeks he himself was fatally hit. Even thou John Simpson Kirkpatrick was a British he is nowadays, because of the service he did for Australian and New Zealand troops, regarded as an Australian national hero. The Emmett family is preserving his memory by the re-enactment that is a part of every year's Anzac Day parade in Murrumbigee, Australia.

Zacetek letosnje ponazoritvene sezone naznanjamo z zanimivim prispevkom z drugega konca sveta. Med izkrcanjem na Galipolju in srditimi boji med enotami ANZAC (Avstralski in novozelandski armadni zbor) in tursko vojsko se je en vojak posebej odlikoval z resevanjem ranjencev z bojisca. Ne menec se za nevarnost, ki ji je bil sam vseskozi izpostavljen je vec tednov na svojem oslu odnesal brezstevilne vojake z gricev in iz sotesk tega zloglasnega bojisca, dokler ni bil po nekaj tednih tudi sam smrtno zadet. John Simpson Kirkpatrick je bil sicer Anglez, a zaradi zaslug pri resevanju avstralskih in novozelandskih vojakov velja danes za avstralskega narodnega junaka. Druzina Emmett takole obuja spomin nanj na vsakoletni paradi ob dnevu ANZAC v kraju Murrumbigee v Avstraliji.

Photo of Joshua, James and Barry Emmett, representing John Simpson Kirkpatrick saving wounded of the7th Lighthorse Brigade at Gallipoli in 1915, courtesy Pat Emmett.

Na fotografiji so Joshua, James in Barry Emmett, kot John Simpson Kirkpatrick med resevanjem ranjencev 7. lahke konjeniske brigade na Gallipoliju leta 1915. Fotografija: Pat Emmett

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