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8th February 2004Total no.of VC winners
By Ed Coan
Just trying to double-check something - what was the total number of VCs won during the Anglo-Zulu War, including posthumous ones?

Thanks for any help received.

Ed Coan
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8th February 2004John Young
Ed,

I'll break it down into the actions fought:-

Isandlwana - 3
Rorke's Drift - 11
Ntombe - 1
Hlobane - 4
Khambula - 1
Reconnaissance of 3/7/1879 - 3.

Total of 23 awards of the Victoria Cross.

The Khambula award relates to Lt. E.S. Browne, 1st/24th Regiment, and is normally wrongly stated as an award for his actions at Hlobane.

John Y.
8th February 2004ed.coan
Thanks John - appreciated.

Ed