|
18th June 2007
|
3 new Defenders of Rorke's
Drift 22/23rd January 1879 added
|
 |
25B/964
Private J Marshall, 2/24th
(2nd Warwickshire) Regiment Defender
of Rorke's Drift 22/23rd January 1879 |
 |
582
Corporal J French, 2/24th
(2nd Warwickshire) Regiment Defender
of Rorke's Drift 22/23rd January 1879 |
 |
458
Bombardier T Lewis, Royal Artillery
Defender of Rorke's Drift
22/23rd January 1879 |
| 10th
June 2007 |
3 day trip around from Essex
through Northamptonshire to Oxfordshire and then home via a real
goody... |
 |
Quartermaster
AP Chambers, Natal Native
Contingent, killed in action, Isandlwana, an incredibly
difficult one to locate within the churchyard - it took us over
20 years! |
 |
Grave of Chaplain
4th Class AJ Law, Army Chaplains'
Department, grave added |
 |
2250
Lance Sergeant GW Forbes, 17th
Lancers, grave. |
 |
Lieutenant
HA Walsh, 1/13th Prince Albert's
Somertshire Light Infantry added |
 |
2 inscriptions mentioning
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel FW Grenfell,
3/60th Rifles, added - It is
not everyone who gets an inscription for 'opening a gate'! |
 |
Lieutenant
ALG Gould, 2nd (Queen's
Bays) Dragoon Guards, added |
 |
Memorial inscription on his
son's plaque mentioning Surgeon
HH Stokes, Army Medical
Department |
 |
This has got to be one of
the most visited memorials that mention a veteran of the Anglo Zulu
War of 1879 - Second Lieutenant WJ
Myers, 3/60th Rifles |
 |
Captain
DG Anderson, 58th Regiment,
plaque |
 |
Captain
AC Jackson, 3rd (The Buffs) Regiment,
grave |
 |
Captain
EJH Spratt, 29th (Worcestershire)
Regiment, grave |
 |
Mention on the Great War
memorial to his great nephew for Lieutenant
Colonel LA Hale, Royal Engineers. |
 |
Lieutenant
CE Curll, 2/24th (2nd Warwickshire)
Regiment, grave |
| |
And, over the next few days, work commitments permitting, some
more defenders of Rorke's Drift
are going up....
|
| 5th
March 2007 |
|
 |
Family inscription to Trooper
William Francis Gordon, Frontier
Light Horse, killed in action at Hlobane. Thanks to Ian
Knight for forwarding on William Lawrie's photographs. |
| 21st
February 2007 |
|
 |
Thanks to Ian
Knight for his photographs of the grave of the Zulu commander
Zibhebu kaMaphitha - an interesting
inscription! |
| 29th
January 2007 |
| Like
everyone else in the Anglo Zulu War Community we are shocked and
deeply saddened by the death of David
Rattray of Fugitives' Drift Lodge. Our sympathies go to his
family. |