{"id":40,"date":"2015-11-16T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2015-12-03T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:12:17","slug":"the-project-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/the-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John (Jack) Simpson Kirkpatrick\u2019s posthumous mythologisation as the \u2018true ANZAC\u2019 reflected his exploits at Gallipoli ferrying wounded comrades to safety on a donkey.<\/h1>\n\t\t
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That he was originally from South Shields is well known, but that he was one of a considerable number of men from the North East of England who served in various Dominion forces during the First World War is a less familiar aspect of the conflict. <\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Sergeant Tom Hunter of the 10th Australian Corps of Kurri Kurri, NSW, came originally from Newcastle, Robert Albrough of the 37th Battalion (Northern Ontario), Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), hailed from Jarrow, Co. Durham, while George Huntly Wood \u2013 who died in Cairo while serving with the New Zealand Medical Corps \u2013 was originally from North Shields. It is the migration stories of these sorts of men that will be at the heart of this exciting project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The service of men (and women) like Simpson and others in the forces of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Newfoundland is part of a much larger story of \u2018Geordie\u2019 migration that started long before 1914, since they were members of what experts now call the \u2018English Diaspora\u2019. Often seen as \u2018invisible migrants\u2019, English emigrants were part of a significant outflow of people that has only lately come to be appreciated. Travelling often to locations across the British Empire, in 1914 many of these so-called \u2018new chums\u2019 promptly joined up and were soon heading back to the northern hemisphere to fight. This is evident from the fact that about 70% of the early Canadian Expeditionary Force, 26% of the first contingent of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and 27% of Australia\u2019s first contingent (AIF) were UK born, many of them from England.<\/p>\n

In this project, we\u2019re looking to recruit \u2018citizen historians\u2019 (i.e. volunteers<\/a>) to research the lives and wartime service of \u2018Geordies\u2019 in the armies of Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Canada during World War One. Our ambition is to \u2018crowdsource\u2019 research (i.e. recruit a crowd of volunteers<\/a> to tackle large-scale research projects), thereby collecting information that will help us to understand why \u2018Geordies\u2019 emigrated and how these journeys relate to their wartime movements and even post-war relocations of settlement.<\/p>\n

The project will consider not only the complexities of individual \u2018migration histories\u2019 but also the way that individuals and communities saw their identities (as \u2018Geordies\u2019 and Britons, but also as Australians, Canadians, or New Zealanders); how they understood \u2018Geordie\u2019 migration more generally, and how people came to see the empire in new ways through this migration.<\/p>\n

By using the term \u2018Geordie\u2019, we are aware that the name is often used to describe the people of Newcastle and Tyneside, but it has been frequently used by scholars to describe the people of the wider north east region\u00a0 as well. In seeking to find volunteers across the world who will help the project to research the lives of these soldiers, we\u2019re using the term because it\u2019s internationally recognisable.<\/p>\n

In the case of the most famous \u2018Geordie\u2019 in any of the Dominion armies (Simpson), while he has become the embodiment of Australian \u2018mateship\u2019 and \u2018larikinism\u2019, he is also remembered at home as a native son of South Shields. By better understanding the complex identities of these men and women, as well as the circumstances that led them to journey so far from home, this project hopes to better understand a fascinating aspect of the First World War that has been almost completely been forgotten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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John Simpson Kirkpatrick Statue in Ocean Road, South Shields, United Kingdom<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sergeant Tom Hunter of the 10th Australian Corps of Kurri Kurri, NSW, came originally from Newcastle, Robert Albrough of the 37th Battalion (Northern Ontario), Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), hailed from Jarrow, Co. Durham, while George Huntly Wood \u2013 who died in Cairo while serving with the New Zealand Medical Corps \u2013 was originally from North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-notitle.php","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Y6c8-E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/","url_meta":{"origin":40,"position":0},"title":"HOME","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have heard of the \u2018man with the donkey\u2019 then you\u2019ll probably know about John (Jack) Simpson Kirkpatrick\u2019s exploits at Gallipoli ferrying wounded comrades to safety on a donkey. That he was originally from South Shields is well known, but that he was one of a much larger body\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dominion-geordies-bottles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":50,"url":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/publications\/","url_meta":{"origin":40,"position":1},"title":"PUBLICATIONS","date":"November 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Publications Using the database, the project organisers plan to write a number of research papers in order to profile the men of the North-East who fought in the armies of the Dominions and look at the nature of their war service in the broader context of their pre- and post-war\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"canadian-soldiers-training-in-mud-and-Water-on-the-salisury-plain","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/canadian-soldiers-training-in-mud-and-Water-on-the-salisury-plain.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":48,"url":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/volunteering\/","url_meta":{"origin":40,"position":2},"title":"VOLUNTEERING","date":"November 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019re looking for people in the north-east of England, the former Dominions, and beyond. Can you help research the lives of \u2018Geordies\u2019 who joined up in the land forces of Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Canada? It might be that you have a relative who served or that you\u2019re just\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":308,"url":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/exhibition\/","url_meta":{"origin":40,"position":3},"title":"EXHIBITION","date":"January 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Exhibition Panels These panels feature stories of some of the men who served in Dominion forces during World War One \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"Dominion Geordies Exhibition Panel","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/panel-20.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk\/dominion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}