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25th June 2003Questions on the Isandhlwana Survivors
Started by Ahasuerus Maniac
4) I have some related questions about the survivors of Isandhlwana: a. Whereas I thought only two... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th June 2003
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25th June 2003Cetshwayo's reaction to Isandhlwana
Started by Miguel
When did the news from Isandhlwana reach Ulundi? What was Cetshwayo's reaction to those news? What decisions did he take?... (click to view)
Latest Post: 18th July 2003
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25th June 2003Commandant Raaf
Started by Justin Young
While researching a SA 1877-9 medal I picked up some time ago to a member of the Transvaal Rangers. I've delevoped a real interest for these Irregular... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th June 2003
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24th June 2003John Radburn's Funeral
Started by John Young
John's funeral is to be conducted this coming Monday, 30th June, 2003, at 1.15p.m. at the Chelmsford Crematorium, Writtle Road, Chelmsford, Essex. ... (click to view)
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23rd June 2003boks
Started by samuel smithington
what books r good to read about zulu war? thanks sammy... (click to view)
Latest Post: 5th July 2003
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23rd June 2003Hospital Fire
Started by Trevor Finney
If the Hospital hadn't caught fire. Do you think the defenders of RD would have been able to hold out that night?... (click to view)
Latest Post: 28th June 2003
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23rd June 2003Pt Chick
Started by Simon Copley
I was in Trinity Methodist church, Penarth and noticed that one of the names on the role of honour for 1914-18 was an E.Chick. Given that this is an u... (click to view)
Latest Post: 18th January 2005
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23rd June 2003The Zulus seen on the plain
Started by A. Maniac
I ask everybody's forgiveness if I am now continuing the discussion too soon after the sad news of the loss of one of your highly valued key members, ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd June 2003
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22nd June 2003The Death of John Radburn
Started by John Young
It is my sad duty to notify the contributors to this forum of one of our number - John Radburn. John died last night in the intensive care unit of ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th July 2003
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21st June 2003Photographs of zulu and british dead or wouded.
Started by Andrew Bush
I have read many books on the zulu war and in all of them there are never any photographs of british,Zulu dead or wounded on the battlefields.You com... (click to view)
Latest Post: 27th June 2003
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20th June 2003Remake
Started by Roger Clifton
I'm sure someone must have said this before but I'd love to see a realistic remake of Zulu where Hook was a gentleman and everyone had beards or big m... (click to view)
Latest Post: 24th June 2003
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20th June 2003Where was Dalton injured?
Started by A.Maniac
3) Was Dalton shot behind the biscuit boxes, as Chard says, or on the north wall, as in other sources? Chard writes: While firing from behind the bi... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th June 2003
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19th June 2003Mounted infantry in SA 1878-9
Started by Justin Young
Could anyone tell me if the was ever a list/lists made of soldiers that served in the mounted infantry during the campaigns in 1878 and the Zulu war i... (click to view)
Latest Post: 20th June 2003
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18th June 2003Durford's Last Stand, and other questions
Started by Andrew
I don't really know a lot about Colonel Durnford's actions at the battle of Isnadhlwana apart from that he defended a dry river bed, but I really want... (click to view)
Latest Post: 24th June 2003
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18th June 2003Hitch was a Gloucestershire man!
Started by A.Maniac
2) I was surprised by the following report of the South African Military History Society, according to which Hitch was not born in Edmonton in 1856 (a... (click to view)
Latest Post: 19th June 2003
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18th June 2003The best one-liner in "Zulu"
Started by Simon Copley
What's yours? My top 10 are: Well they've got a very good bass section, mind. But no top tenors, that's for sure (Pt Owen) I've made a soldier outa ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 8th March 2005
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18th June 2003The Guns
Started by Neil Aspinshaw
like many of the participants of this site, I attentended the Zulu lectures at the R.A.M Chelsea. (Feb 2003) held by messrs Knight and Pollard. The su... (click to view)
Latest Post: 5th July 2003
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17th June 2003That Man Jenkins
Started by A. Maniac
Esteemed Gentlemen of the Zulu persuasion, As someone who only recently discovered this site I have been having a lot of fun going through all the ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 18th June 2003
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16th June 2003David Kernan (Pte Hitch, in 'Zulu')
Started by marc Jung
no, no, i haven;t heard he's dead, or anything! I saw him in an edition of 'The Good Old Days' on BBC via a re-run can anyone back this up? It was a... (click to view)
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16th June 2003Please, is it really true about queuing for ammo at Isandhlwana?!
Started by Marc Jung
Thanks again to: Miguel, Diana, Sheldon. Myth, just like queuing for ammo at Isandhlwana! (it seems!) Did any survivors at the latter actually say thi... (click to view)
Latest Post: 17th June 2003
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