Drummer Boy 14

Posts : 2008 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 25
 | 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 |
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tasker224

Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 56 Location : 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. |
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Drummer Boy 14

Posts : 2008 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 25
 | 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 |
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tasker224

Posts : 2101 Join date : 2010-07-30 Age : 56 Location : 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. |
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Drummer Boy 14

Posts : 2008 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 25
 | Subject: Re: Bullet taken from Durnfrods body?? Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:56 pm | |
| I think its a musket ball Cheers |
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