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Bullet taken from Durnfrods body??
Author Message Drummer Boy 14 Posts : 1998Join date : 2011-08-01Age : 23 Subject: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:08 pm Does anyone have any more infomation regarding a bullet that was taken from Durnfrods body?? I have been told twice know that it is on display at the RE museum. Does anyone have any infomation regarding this ?? Cheers DB14
tasker224 Posts : 2102Join date : 2010-07-30Age : 54Location : North London Subject: Re: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:11 pm Try emailing the RE museum? It would be interesting to know exactly all of what they have relating to Durnford.
Drummer Boy 14 Posts : 1998Join date : 2011-08-01Age : 23 Subject: Re: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:18 pm i'll try
I have heard they have his sword, trunk, papers, medal,some knecklaces he picked up in Zululand.
I don't see how a bullet could have been taken from his body, no historian makes mention of it
Cheers
DB14
tasker224 Posts : 2102Join date : 2010-07-30Age : 54Location : North London Subject: Re: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:27 pm Drummer Boy 14 wrote: i'll try I have heard they have his sword, trunk, papers, medal,some knecklaces he picked up in Zululand. I don't see how a bullet could have been taken from his body, no historian makes mention of it Cheers DB14 No. This was not what you might have called common practice, unless a post mortem was carried out.
Drummer Boy 14 Posts : 1998Join date : 2011-08-01Age : 23 Subject: Re: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:56 pm I think its a musket ball
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