Zulu Dawn:“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana
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Shelldon
Posts : 4 Join date : 2016-09-28
Subject: Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:13 pm
Hi all. This may be a strange request, but just before Ken Gillings passed away I spent 14 days on tour with him. At Isandlwana we spoke about the memorial to the artillery placed there by himself and two others.
Would anyone on the forum be able to recall who the other two fellows were, and when this was done?
Thanks so much Shelldon
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7841 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana Sun Sep 08, 2019 4:03 pm
George chadwick
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7841 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana Sun Sep 08, 2019 5:34 pm
Possibly S B Borquin
John Young
Posts : 2288 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:36 pm
It was unveiled at the 120th Anniversary, so twenty years ago.
JY
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7841 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:55 pm
Ive asked Pam Macfaden but she would like to see the photo, anyone have a copy of it? The other possibility of course would be David Rattray. I seem to recall the Durban Artillery chaps sponsored the memorial so again it could have been one of their representatives
From a memorial to Ken. He facilitated the erection of a memorial on the Isandlwana battlefields to N/5 Battery, Royal Artillery, which was unveiled by The Master Gunner of St James’s Park, Field Marshall The Lord Vincent in the presence of His Majesty, King Goodwill Zwelithini during the celebrations to mark the 120th anniversary of the battle in 1999."
Ken was of course an ex member of the Field Artillery.
Assumed Position of the Artillery Pieces at Isandlwana
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