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Lord Chelmsford Said .Buller is ‘one of the finest soldiers of the century’, so modest and reticent –that it was difficult to say for what individual deed he had got the Victoria Cross as he had been doing acts worthy of it all along the line
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Subject: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 9:52 pm
Zulu Victroy states that Pat Dally returned to camp with Gardner and that his body was found with Wardle's in a clump of some 60 bodies, but they give no source.
Wasn't Dally in F Coy and not out with Chelmsford, also Major black says he found Dyer, Wardle and a Captain and a subaltern that couldn't be recognized, no refrence to Dally.
Anyone know were Zulu Victory get there info from ?
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John
Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 57 Location : UK
Subject: Re: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 9:55 pm
Wasn't it said that Dyer was seen on a large Chestnut horse with the colours riding off the Battlefield
Drummer Boy 14
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Subject: Re: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 9:57 pm
Rumoured, but not true.
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John
Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 57 Location : UK
Subject: Re: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 10:03 pm
Can you post the link to show where Dyson body was found. If already posted where?
Drummer Boy 14
Posts : 1997 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 23
Subject: Re: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 10:05 pm
Daily News, June, 1879.
"On the 20th, 23rd, and 26th June the burial of the remainder of those who fell at Isandhlwana was completed by a force under the command of Lieut. -Colonel Black, 24th Regiment. He carefully noted the signs of the fight, and reported that the bodies of the slain lay thickest in the l-24th camp, in which 130 dead lay (in two distinct spots), with their officers, Captain Wardell, Lieutenant Dyer, and a captain and a subaltern not recognisable ; close to the place where the bodies of Colonel Durnford, Lieutenant Scott, and other Carbineers, and men of the Natal Mounted Police were found. This is described as being a " centre of resistance," as the bodies of men of all arms were found converging as it were to the spot. About sixty bodies, with those of Captain Younghusband and two other officers, lay in a group under the southern precipice of Isandhlwana, as if they had held the crags and fought till ammunition failed. The proofs of hand- to-hand fighting were frequent. The fugitives' track, too, told its tale : " Here and there around a waggon, here and there around a tree, a group had formed and stood at bay ; shoulder to shoulder they fired their last cartridge, and shoulder to shoulder they plied the steel ; side by side their bones are lying and tell the tale."
John
Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 57 Location : UK
Subject: Re: Pat Dally- Zulu Victory Mon May 14, 2012 10:19 pm
Thanks. I have a similar article. Will post tomorrow.
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