Zulu Dawn:“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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Subject: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:47 pm
There appears to be a consensus that the Natal Carbineer accompanying Adendorff away from Islandhlwana was a Trooper W Sibthorpe of the Natal Carbineers. Is anyone able to point me towards any further information about him?
MikeS
1879graves
Posts : 3190 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:46 pm
Hi MikeS
Welcome to the forum.
The best person who may be able to help you with further information is Forum Member, Julian Whybra.
Hopefully he will see you post and add a comment.
mikes
Posts : 3 Join date : 2018-08-31
Subject: Re: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:34 pm
1879graves Many thanks for your reply. Hopefully he will respond. MikeS
90th
Posts : 10330 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 65 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Tpr Sibthorpe NC Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:14 am
Hi All According to Julian's England's Sons Tpr Sibthorpe never left an account . Hopefully Julian will post what he knows of W.Sibthorpe . 90th
Julian Whybra
Posts : 2461 Join date : 2011-09-12
Subject: Re: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:04 am
Hi I'd direct you to the essay The Brave fugitive and p. 75 in particular in Studies in the Zulu War vol I. Sibthorpe left no known account. Binns was the historian who stated definitively that it was S. and Adendorff who warned the Drift but without giving any provenance. As you will read a process of elimination would seen to suggest he was right.
mikes
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Subject: Re: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:12 pm
Julian Thanks. I will look into these with interest. I note that the same name; this time a Private W Sibthorpe appears some years later at Lombards Kop in 1899 where a DCM was awarded alongside Lt.John Norwood's VC. mikes
Julian Whybra
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Subject: Re: Trooper W Sibthorpe, Natal Carbineers Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:22 pm
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