He is matched by the salvific figure of John Simpson Fitzpatrick, whose grave is the most visited of all.
It's a testament to a misfit, a British migrant who joined up to get a free passage home, who carved his name with charity, carrying the wounded on a donkey, down from the perilous heights to the relative safety of the bay.
Simpson died in May 1915, but men who arrived months later swore they had seen him, such was the drawing power of his myth.
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It says something about what those men revered that they embraced this humble figure with a donkey so wholeheartedly, and you have to ask: a man with a donkey symbolising courage, service and sacrifice: wherever can they have got that idea?
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