Original Consignment, 2003-2009

Component identifier:

Class MS 9334

Extent:

.60 metres and (4 ms boxes)

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises correspondence, photographs, notes, research material (primarily photocopies) and manuscript drafts relating to the researching and writing of Cochrane's book Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend (1992). The research material gathered by Cochrane documents the life and legend of stretcher-bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Jim Henderson, Humphrey McQueen, John Hirst, John Herouvim, Peter Stanley, Barry York, Alan McLean, Craig Munro, Catherine Snowden, Ian Duffield, Chris Pugsley, Ann Richter, Michael Sharkey and Paul Fussell

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the Library by Dr Peter Cochrane in October 1997. Further papers were added in 2010.

Names:

Cochrane, Peter

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