Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Subject: Bodies of the 80th. Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:00 pm
I was reading a letter in The Red Soldier written by Tucker, he says lots of bodies of the 80th were still missing and hadn't been found for burial.
Does anyone know if all the bodies of the 80th were found and buried or are they still missing ?
Cheers
90th
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Bodies Of the 80th Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:09 pm
Hi DB14. The figures are in Robert Hope's book , some were never found but it seems they were swept away by the river or possibly had become entangled in the debris in the river . Quickly looking through Hope's book 21 are posted as missing initialy , with 6 of these being found and buried later . The book gives the names and their Regimental numbers . cheers 90th.
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Subject: Re: Bodies of the 80th. Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:19 am
Hi all
How many missing?
Pascal
barry
Posts : 947 Join date : 2011-10-21 Location : Algoa Bay
Subject: Reconciling dead and missing numbers Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:40 am
Hi 90th/DB14,
Agreed 90th, a number of those escaping into the river at Fugitives drift were swept away and their bodies never found. Yet others were reported jumping off cliff faces and dieing in the fall. These details are unknown so trying to do a recon on the overall numbers buried at Isandlwana is a bit of a wasted exercise. Further, some graves/cairns recently reconstructed were found to contain only bone fragments which passed through a 5cm sieve, ie no whole bodies there and no certaintity that all the bones were all human either. Will we ever know?
regards,
barry
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Subject: Re: Bodies of the 80th. Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:05 am
Hi Barry
Also how many bodies missing in total?
Salute
Pascal
90th
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Bodies Of the 80th Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:40 am
Hi Barry . In case you arent aware this thread is regarding the 80th Regt at Ntombe Drift . :lol: :lol: .
Psacal . Read my post 21 - 6 = 15 . !!!!. .
cheers 90th.
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Subject: Re: Bodies of the 80th. Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:45 am
Hi Gary
post 21 - 6 = 15 ???
Pascal
90th
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Bodies Of the 80th Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:51 am
Hi Pascal . You ask how many bodies missing in total , read my post and do the math , you will find the number is 15 . 21 - 6 = 15 cheers 90th.
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Subject: Re: Bodies of the 80th. Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:56 am
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