A Natal Carbineers account of iSandlwana and being saved by Smith Dorrien

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Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 22 January 1929

Remarkable coincidence Kate, just posted my new purchase on this amazing man.

Frank

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A little extract from an article form the Western Morning News - Wednesday 23 January 1929

Kate if possible could you e mail those cuttings please

Frank

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This isn't Wheeler-Holohan's 'account' again is it?

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Holohan is obviously nonsense... unless it was an alias. He does correctly place Bradstreet near Black's Koppie but that means little in the grand scheme.

It's the Nottingham-Sherwood Foresters and date connexions to the above newspaper cuttings above that switched on a warning light in my head. Wheeler-Holohan gave a series of lectures before the article was published - I'm wondering if the cuttings above were a result.

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