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He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's....................
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Victorian Dad
Posts : 41 Join date : 2015-12-27 Location : Victorian London
Subject: He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's.................... Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:27 am
Please forgive me ignorance, but my knowledge on Christian Ferdinand Schiess is very limited. I'm a bit confused as to which unit he was serving with? Was he Natal Mounted Police as the film suggests or was he Natal Native Contingent?
SRB1965
Posts : 896 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 57 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
Subject: Re: He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's.................... Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:34 pm
Hi
He was in the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Natal Native Infantry Contingent (2/3 NNIC)
He was a patient in the hospital at RD - there has been some debate lately but it is said that he had a badly blistered foot.
Cheers
Sime
Victorian Dad
Posts : 41 Join date : 2015-12-27 Location : Victorian London
Subject: Re: He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's.................... Sun Sep 30, 2018 3:26 pm
SRB1965 wrote:
Hi
He was in the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Natal Native Infantry Contingent (2/3 NNIC)
He was a patient in the hospital at RD - there has been some debate lately but it is said that he had a badly blistered foot.
Cheers
Sime
Cheers Sime, so he wasn't in the Natal Police at all then, just something they've added to the film? At least the injured foot bit is true.
SRB1965
Posts : 896 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 57 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
Subject: Re: He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's.................... Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:39 pm
Hi
The film took one or two liberties - sadly many of them have gone down (in the public mind) to be truth.
There were 3 members of the NMP at RD - Lugg, Hunter and Green (I think), but FS was an NCO of the NNIC.
Thanks
Sime
He's a Peeler, 716 come to arrest the Zulu's....................