Film Zulu: Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle. Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle. Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it.
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Subject: Re: A Natal Carbineers account of iSandlwana and being saved by Smith Dorrien Fri Jul 22, 2022 4:17 pm
This isn't Wheeler-Holohan's 'account' again is it?
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Subject: Re: A Natal Carbineers account of iSandlwana and being saved by Smith Dorrien Sat Jul 23, 2022 7:10 am
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.
Subject: Re: A Natal Carbineers account of iSandlwana and being saved by Smith Dorrien Sat Jul 23, 2022 7:33 am
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.
A Natal Carbineers account of iSandlwana and being saved by Smith Dorrien