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» Staff College, Camberley. Class of 1880-1
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» Pete Smith Cottage.
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Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:29 am by 90th

» Lt C. Williams KIA Hlobane
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Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:09 am by 90th

» Diamond Fields Horse in Zululand
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Tue Jul 07, 2020 4:58 am by 90th

» Buffalo Border Guard Anonymous Letter
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:42 pm by Julian Whybra

» Surgn. J. McGann. A. M. Dept
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:07 pm by ADMIN

» Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Dowling Reeves Welman, 99th
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:54 pm by ADMIN

» Commander C. Lindsay.
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:42 pm by ADMIN

» Reopening National Archives
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:01 pm by Bill8183

» S.SMITH Buffalo Border Guard
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:48 pm by Julian Whybra

» NNC Officer List
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:45 pm by Ells

» One of the lesser-known stories. It took place around the same time as Isandlwana.
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Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:37 am by Julian Whybra

» N Batt 5th Bde RA
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Sat Jul 04, 2020 11:52 am by Rory Reynolds

» Questions of Time and Place at Isandlwana
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Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:38 pm by Frank Allewell

» Question Regarding the Uniforms of the Officers of the 24th at Isandlwana
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Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:06 am by SRB1965

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Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:26 pm by intombe

» Zulu Victory - Views?
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:52 pm by WeekendWarrior

» Isandlwana Survivor photo's
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:56 pm by Julian Whybra

» Anyone got information on this.
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:55 pm by Julian Whybra

» Captn. H. G. Bowen, 88th Foot
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Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:18 pm by gstew88

» The South Africa Medal to HMS Forester - an anomaly?
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Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:41 pm by Petty Officer Tom

» Lieut. R. F. Dixon NMR
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Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:01 am by 90th

» Next month's DNW medal auction
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Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:45 am by 90th

» Zulu war medals on eBay
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Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:14 pm by SergioD

» John Basten
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Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:20 pm by Petty Officer Tom

» Lieutenant Walter Robert Higginson NNC
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Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:19 am by ciroferrara

» Letter home from Eshowe
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Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:24 pm by Blackcat

» Melvill's Revolver Cylinder
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Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:05 am by Drummer Boy 14

» Assistant Commissary W. Winspear Commissariat Department, present at Gingindlovu
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Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:05 pm by ADMIN

» Orders to laager at Isandhlwana
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Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:11 pm by SRB1965

» morale and the siege at Eshowe
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Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:43 am by Julian Whybra

» ISANDLWANA SURVIVIORS
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Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:21 am by 90th

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Subject: South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (2022. Pte. A. Brooks. 3/60th Foot.) Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:05 pm

"Alfred Brooks was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, in September 1859 and enlisted at Liverpool on 30 October 1877. He served in South Africa from 19 February 1879 to 22 October 1881, and was present in the Zulu and the Transvaal campaigns. He was afterwards present at Tel-el-Kebir during the Egyptian war of 1882 (Medal with clasp and Bronze star) and was discharged on 26 January 1884" Source DNW footnotes

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