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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Subject: With Colonel Black in May?? Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:51 pm
Does anyone know if a certain Laurence
Went with Colonel Black to Isandlwana in March, the second vist??
i think he may have been a officer
Cheers DB14
barry
Posts : 935 Join date : 2011-10-21 Location : Algoa Bay
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:55 am
Hi DB14,
Was this Col Black the Maj Black of the 24th who lead the expedition of NMP troopers to Isandlwana on about 2 February 1879, to recover the 24th's colours?
barry
Drummer Boy 14
Posts : 2003 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 24
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:04 pm
Its the same man
Cheers DB14
kwajimu1879
Posts : 420 Join date : 2011-05-14
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:33 pm
DB14,
There was a Captain Henry Buckton Laurence in the 2nd Battn., 4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment, who was based at Helpmekaar, appears in Mac' & Shad' as Lawrence (sic). I've got an engraving of him somewhere as he was later killed in subsequent campaign whilst serving in a South African unit, having resigned his commission.
kwaJimu1879
Drummer Boy 14
Posts : 2003 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 24
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:41 pm
Hi Thanks for that
This is what i had on him
From "Selected Writings of the Late William Moorsom Laurence" ibid.
"...I found rather an interesting relic in the shape of a diary kept by Lieut. Pope, who was in command of the company of the 2-24th that was destroyed
Cheers DB14
1879graves
Posts : 3191 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: With Colonel Black in May?? Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:06 pm
DB14,
Then that would be Assistant Commissary W. M. Laurence of the Commissariat & Transport Department, who performed Transport duty at the Hq.-Qrs. at Pietermaritzburg...
I think I've got an engraving of him somewhere as well!
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