Zulu Dawn:Col Crealock. “Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Posts : 7770 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:41 pm
Interesting little question.
John Young
Posts : 2263 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:10 pm
Frank,
Northern or Southern Africa?
JY
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7770 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:43 pm
Southern John. I was out rambling around the site on the weekend.
Kenny
Posts : 445 Join date : 2013-05-07 Location : Brecon
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:52 pm
Try 8 January 1806 - I have walked the site on 200th anniversary with U.K. High Commissioner Paul Boateng in 2006.
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7770 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:31 pm
Well done Kenny, lets keep it at that and see if anyone can identify the location. Incidently would any award/medal have been awarded or would it just be a regimental award?
Kenny
Posts : 445 Join date : 2013-05-07 Location : Brecon
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:51 pm
Frank
Having made the post, I remembered that the 24th did get awarded the famous SPHINX with Egypt in 1801. For 1806, as far as I can tell there were no awards to individuals and then the battle honour was only granted in 1824. In 1881 when the honour for South Africa 1877-8-9 was granted, the date 1806 was added to the earlier award to avoid confusion.
1879graves
Posts : 3176 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:03 pm
The Battle of Blaauwberg, also known as the Battle of Cape Town.
rusteze
Posts : 2872 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:21 pm
An officer of the 24th at the time of the Battle of Blauw Berg by Richard Simkin. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Steve Reinstadtler
John Young
Posts : 2263 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:30 pm
Odd that the Military General Service Medal didn’t extend to the Cape of Good Hope, given that the clasp ‘Java’ was authorised for another action against the Dutch.
JY
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Frank Allewell
Posts : 7770 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: The first battle fought in Africa by the 24th? Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:47 pm
An erudite bunch indeed, well done Gentlemen. my most local battlefield and its taken me 50 years to get there
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