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1st June 2004Look a Zulu Spear!
Started by Pickasso
X======> Thats a spear. or maybe an arrow ======0 Thats a knobkerry! Totally cool huh? ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 27th June 2004
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14th June 2004Ammunition Boxes
Started by Alex Rossiter
Sorry to be a pain as i know there has been quite a few ammo boxes threads in the past, but , im going to try and make a zulu war ammo box model in a ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 26th June 2004
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8th June 2004Gnr Arthur Howard
Started by Andrew Vollans
Hi there, Just wondering if anyone has seen details of Arthur Howards background and family history. My Welsh Aunt used to tell me of an ancestor at ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th June 2004
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22nd June 2004Mastermind and the Zulu War
Started by Krishna
BBC 2 Television � Mastermind. Brent Peeling, a member of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society, is currently a strong contender for the BBC 2 tel... (click to view)
Latest Post: 22nd June 2004
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8th November 2002Smith Dorrien
Started by Peter Ewart
John I work with the daughter of AJ Smithers, biographer of S-D ("The Man Who Disobeyed") & it is not unknown for me to bring him (S-... (click to view)
Latest Post: 22nd June 2004
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4th June 2004Martini Henry
Started by Neil Aspinshaw
We often get participants requesting where they can buy or obtain a Martini Henry. Whilst I have no commercial interest here ,I have found there is ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 17th June 2004
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30th May 2004Ignorance or Isurrection?
Started by Rob Gerrard
Every now and then I read something that makes my hackles rise and whilst those near at hand say - 'relax, the guy's a lunatic, go with the flow' - ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 17th June 2004
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15th June 2004DCM - Abbott's book
Started by Peter Ewart
Does anyone have a copy of Abbott's published list of DCM holders, 1855-1909? If anyone does, I'm interested in a quick look-up, please. Peter... (click to view)
Latest Post: 16th June 2004
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27th December 2001COLOUR SGT BOURNE
Started by Keith Newbery
Every time I watch the film Zulu (and I must have seen it 25 times at least) I am always puzzled and a little disappointed that Colour Sgt Bourne did ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 14th June 2004
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4th June 2004The North Wall at Rorke's Drift
Started by Andrew Holliday
When the Zulus attacked the North Wall for the fist time, did they attack along the whole wall or just the part in front of the hospital?... (click to view)
Latest Post: 13th June 2004
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9th June 2004Connaught Rangers 94th Regiment
Started by Jo Anne
Hello, My great grandfather received a medal for operations in South Africa against the Zulus and Sekukuni during 1879. Also mentioned is Lydenburg -... (click to view)
Latest Post: 12th June 2004
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11th June 200419th century newspapers on-line
Started by David Alan Gardner
I see more than a million pages of 19 th cen newspapers are to be put online by the British Library. It will be ready in about 18 months time.Should ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 11th June 2004
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9th June 2004Return to Rorke's Drift?
Started by Peter Ewart
Just a thought. The recent pilgrimages to Normandy led me to wonder whether any of the defenders of 22/23rd January ever returned to Rorke's Drift ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 11th June 2004
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10th June 2004" who really did for Melvill and Coghill ".
Started by L.J.Knight
" who killed Melvill and Coghill "...definitive answer please. gen,lord Wolsley, quote!. " ish ". " it would have been better... (click to view)
Latest Post: 10th June 2004
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12th May 2004How many Zulus attacked Rorke's Drift on 22/23 Jan 79
Started by Martin Evevett
Official records suggest that 500 to 600 warriors were sighted at 4.30 pm on 22 Jan. Chard stated 350 Zulu dead after the action which now appears to... (click to view)
Latest Post: 10th June 2004
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10th January 2004New Zulu Epic
Started by Natalija Mohovika
It would be interesting to have some reactions from afficionados of this battle to the new movie being planned. Due to contractual complications and d... (click to view)
Latest Post: 10th June 2004
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3rd June 2004KZN battlefields
Started by Robert Jones
Amafa/Heritage KZN has just reminded individual tour operators and guides who take parties to KwaZulu-Natal battlefields that each person in the group... (click to view)
Latest Post: 8th June 2004
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27th May 2004There is in fact a new Zulu in the offing(Yay!) But....
Started by Michael Boyle
....It's not "our" Zulu (Boo! or Thank God! depending on your position).Shaka Zulu 2 is "in development" by an American studio acc... (click to view)
Latest Post: 8th June 2004
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27th February 2004Zulu
Started by Steven Etchells
A lot of people I know became interested in the Anglo-Zulu war through watching the film Zulu, but I have since read that a lot of serious historians ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 8th June 2004
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2nd June 2004Northern Command Tattoo Rorkes Drift Survivors
Started by MELANIE TRINDER
I have a picture of rorkes drift survivors at the northern command tottoo with the organizer of the pageant.There are six men five of them are EX-SG... (click to view)
Latest Post: 7th June 2004
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