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Post by Chips on May 21, 2008 10:18:15 GMT 9.5
Recognition for Simpson Simpson's valour could be honoured in another way ("Simpson, the man with the donkey, denied a VC", May 19). On a visit to Gallipoli, I eventually found his simple grave at Hell Spit, and, among other things, admired many Turkish statues. Australian ones were hard to find. Although there are magnificent statues of Simpson and his donkey in Canberra and Melbourne, it would be fitting for a similar one to be erected at Shrapnel Gully. I am confident there would be no quibbling about this form of recognition. Don Goodsir Mosman
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Post by Chips on May 22, 2008 9:53:41 GMT 9.5
Tribute to the humble donkey
There is a statue of Simpson and his donkey in South Shields, his home town in the north-east of England (Letters, May 21). Beside the tomb of New Zealand's Unknown Warrior in Wellington is a small statue of Richard Henderson, who carried on the donkey work.
Mary Small Sylvania Heights
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Post by Chips on May 23, 2008 16:15:58 GMT 9.5
Cashing in on medals at cross-purposes to courage
I find it appalling that some people are cashing in on sales of Victoria Crosses and other medals ("Stokes VC buyer", May 22). While it is admirable that Kerry Stokes has saved these items from being sent offshore, they should never have been sold. In the US it is illegal to sell a Medal of Honour. These awards have been made to individuals - to sell them as collectors' items cheapens their significance and insults the spirit in which they were awarded. Morgan Hitchcock O'Connor (ACT)
Of course Simpson deserves a posthumous VC ("Time for Rudd to show courage and honour the man with the donkey", May 22), but so do all the Anzacs who went over the top at the Nek knowing they were going to certain death. This is the cruelty and madness of war: that certain acts of bravery are honoured because they catch the public eye while thousands of equally brave men die unsung.
Max Sollitt Annandale
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