| Date Started | Topics (page 2 of 106) | Replies |
| 24th August 2005 | buttons - zulu war ?
Started by eric
I was recently clearing out a deceased estates study and came across an old box containing battlefield relics
apparently the items were collected w... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th August 2005 | 3 |
| 23rd August 2005 | Pte. Thomas Henry Short - Was He At Rorke's Drift?
Started by Nick Thornicroft
I have recently discovered a newspaper article from 1916 which describes the funeral of the above named soldier, who claimed he was at Rorke's Drift w... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd August 2005 | 2 |
| 23rd August 2005 | 'The Screams' by Mazisi Kunene
Started by Coll
I mentioned this in a previous topic, as a small section of this particular poem appears at the beginning of the book 'Like Lions They Fought' by R.B.... (click to view)
Latest Post: 24th August 2005 | 2 |
| 22nd August 2005 | ISANDLWANA - NEW LAMPS FOR OLD
Started by Mike McCabe
Time to get back onto a good old style free debate - good for both heart and lungs!
Before your groans deafen us all, let us return to the idea of wh... (click to view)
Latest Post: 31st August 2005 | 35 |
| 21st August 2005 | Pte Brickey at Rorke's Drift?
Started by Glenn Wade
The original topic posted here has raised the question of legal consequences which the contributor and the website don't consider worth the risk.
How... (click to view)
Latest Post: 22nd August 2005 | 12 |
| 21st August 2005 | Day of the Dead Moon
Started by Dawn
Can someone explain for me the phrase ‘the day of the dead moon’? I know it refers to 22 January 1879 and seems having something to do with the p... (click to view)
Latest Post: 22nd August 2005 | 8 |
| 19th August 2005 | What would have been the 3rd Columns chances?
Started by David Alan Gardner
Prompted by Mike McCabes answer to an earlier thread, I wouln't mind asking contributors what they thought the whole 3rd column's chances to be had Ch... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th August 2005 | 37 |
| 19th August 2005 | 'The Tale of Isandhlwana' by Rider Haggard
Started by Paul Cubbin
This is question that has been asked within one of the other topics, but one that I think deserves a little more attention to get a better range of an... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd August 2005 | 7 |
| 19th August 2005 | Looking for army papers of VC's
Started by Bill
I wish to obtain photocopies of the army service documents of the VC winners from the Rorke's Drift action - but I am having some trouble locating the... (click to view)
Latest Post: 19th August 2005 | 2 |
| 19th August 2005 | Isandhlwana survivor
Started by Julian Whybra
Details of a new survivor from Isandhlwana will appear in an article with references I have just offered to Soldiers of the Queen, the VMS Journal - f... (click to view)
Latest Post: 22nd August 2005 | 8 |
| 19th August 2005 | Royal Natal Carbineers
Started by Sean Sweeney
If you're not already aware, the Natal Carbineers celebrated their 150th Anniversary earlier this year,
and are S.Africa's senior Regiment.
My 'Carb... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd August 2005 | 5 |
| 18th August 2005 | Will the real Edward Bear come forward?
Started by Martin Everett
Nothing to do with AZW, but perhaps to this discussion forum. There is an article in the Bulletin of the Military Historical Society (Vol 56, No 221,... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd August 2005 | 8 |
| 18th August 2005 | Strange Title In The 19th Century Book Listings
Started by Coll
A short while back I received my usual copy of the Ken Trotman Ltd book catalogue.
Reading through the 19th Century listing, I discovered a title, ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 27th August 2005 | 13 |
| 17th August 2005 | "What really happened at Rourke's Drift ?"
Started by Mike Conway
I have just returned from a holiday in SA where we visited the battlefield. I picked up a small pamphlet with the above title by one Pat Rundgren whi... (click to view)
Latest Post: 21st August 2005 | 13 |
| 16th August 2005 | Redvers Buller on film
Started by Paul Bryant-Quinn
Many of you will be aware of the discovery several years ago of some 830 films, dating from c. 1899 to shortly before the First World War, made by S... (click to view) | 0 |
| 16th August 2005 | Poignant words
Started by Robert Jones
A bit of a scrap on a bit of a plain,
And somebody,s shot in the head ;
A bit of a row at the front again,
And a bit of a map that,s red,
And some... (click to view) | 0 |
| 16th August 2005 | Martini Henry prices
Started by Michael Kent
I am in possession of numerous Mark II Martini Henry's with bayonets in pretty good condition. They are all stamped by the War Department have the VR ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 17th August 2005 | 4 |
| 16th August 2005 | War Movies - Are Film Posters Still As Dramatic ?
Started by Coll
When you think back to the older war movies (of any era), do you remember if the posters advertising them were one of the reasons for drawing you to g... (click to view)
Latest Post: 25th August 2005 | 13 |
| 16th August 2005 | The Setting for Zulu
Started by Dawn
Where was the movie Zulu filmed? Now before anyone says Africa, I mean the exact place in Africa. I've watched the movie again and can't get it from... (click to view)
Latest Post: 31st August 2005 | 38 |
| 14th August 2005 | The Queens Shilling
Started by Dawn
Taking the Queens Shilling means joining the army after the way recruiting sergeants offered a shilling -or more- to recruits. Was this practice still... (click to view)
Latest Post: 23rd August 2005 | 14 |
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