Bogus claims to having taken part in the defence of the mission station Rorkes Drift.

Thought it would be a good excercise to try and list the names of those who claimed to have been at Rorkes Drift during the Battle.

This one must have claimed to have been a VC winner at Rorkes Drift.

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This one we know already posted on forum.

"Walting" was a lot easier and probably a lot more prolific in the pre-internet days.

God Bless the net?.

Not too bad, four since yesterday.  

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Interesting that no one from the military is mentioned as having attended his funeral?

There must have been many 'Old Soldiers' back in day that told their stories in pubs for a pint or two, and much of it must have been believed by others as being 'fact', so when the old bloke passed on, they would most likely assume that these tales were true and that is why they get credited with being somewhere they weren't. It is a good job there are some good researchers and historians who can delve into these sort of things and get to the bottom of it all. I wonder if there has ever been headstones, etc, that have been altered after it was found out that the 'old soldier' was fibbing about his whereabouts?

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This one we know already posted on forum.

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Liverpool Echo 22 January 1927

Well , what can one say ....... So much rubbish in that story , wonder what the actual veterans would've though reading that ! .
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