Film Zulu: Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle. Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle. Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it.
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Subject: Re: Pulliene and Melville relationship. Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:18 am
Thanks for the information 90th - I didn't know that!!!!! Do you think they lost the colours in the river, or do you think the Zulus on the Natal side chucked their bodies and the colours (the damning evidence) back into the Buffalo, to try to disguise the fact that it was friendly zulus who had killed them?
90th
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Subject: Pulleine and Melvill relationship Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:25 am
Hi Kopie . I believe the Colours were lost , not dumped in the river , Melvill and Coghill were found a fair distance from the river and had climbed a steep hill before they were killed , they were not tossed back into the river . Cheers 90th.
kopie
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Subject: Re: Pulliene and Melville relationship. Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:38 am
Wow, thanks. Therefore, their bodies were found, minus their excuse - the colours.
90th
Posts : 10677 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Pulleine and Melvill relationship Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:42 am
Hi Kopie . If you use the search box on the left hand side you'll be able to read quite a bit on Melvill and Coghill , including finding their bodies and the subsequent burial . 90th