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I also wonder if anybody knows the whereabouts of reviews of Zulu from the 1960s. I spend a couple of days looking through Sight and Sound and Screen magazines, but found pittance! Its such a shame t ...
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Just wondering if anybody knew where I could acquire a copy of the Zulu screenplay. I know that most of us know the words off by heart, but I am just curious as to whether such a thing exists in prin ...
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| Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:15 am |
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This is all very interesting...John Laffin suggests that the term was first used in 1743 in a letter sent from Jamaica, but as to the reliability of this citation, I'm not sure. Its all fascinating be ...
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I've always wondered about the origins of this phrase, and whether it applied to just the 'English' or to the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish as well. And if 'Tommy Atkins' was the stereotypical 'Engl ...
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I was just wondering whether members of the 24th were infuriated about not being allowed to participate at the battle of Ulundi, or secretly glad about not doing so. Had the battle been less one-side ...
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Private George Pettit wrote in one of his letters that Cetshwayo "has killed his mother; so by that it is nearly time that they should crush him" (Frank Emery, The Red Soldier, p. 154). Is t ...
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| Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:21 pm |
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| Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:36 pm |
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Did the public�s perception of the ignorant and slovenly �Tommy Atkins� really change dramatically with the expansion and popularisation of empire after the Zulu War. I've just been reading "The ...
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:22 pm |
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`Wel, y mae yn amser I mi at derfynu fy llythyr, ond rhaid I mi ddyweyd wrthych ddarfod I sports fod yn y regiment yma ddydd Sadwrn diweddaf. Yr oeddynt fel �Sports Dros yr Aber,� sef rhedeg races ...
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I was always lead to believe that about 370 'officers' died at Waterloo, so I presume, if Hutchinson is correct, there must be a technicality somewhere along the line - they must be including some of ...
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| Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:02 pm |
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I was just wondering what the reality of the lives of the soldiers was after the conflict. Although the perceptions of the contemporary populus may have changed, didn't a large number of soldiers late ...
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| Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:42 pm |
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Does anybody know how/where I would be able to obtain a copy of the below source? I discovered it on the RHS website, but all searches for it elsewhere have proved fruitless!
Knight, Ian J. 'Nothin ...
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| Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:39 am |
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I have already read all books by Spiers, they are extremely useful and I thank your for your reccomendation. My interest in the recruitment of soldiers stems from the fact that a vast proportion alwa ...
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| Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:39 pm |
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Is it true that recruting sergeants deliberately targeted drinking houses in order to recruit men in a drunken stupor? Was just reading a letter from Private Ward who said: "I am now very sorry f ...
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I was just wondering if anybody could shed any light on why Private Wilcox was not posted to Gibraltar after the war with the rest of the 2/24th. I believe he may have been in prison in Pinetown, but ...
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