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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 10, 2004 9:35:07 GMT -5
Please post your photos and thoughts about this famous battle..
Thanks
Mike
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Post by neferetus on Dec 10, 2004 10:02:47 GMT -5
Hey Bromhead, have you been keeping in touch with Welsh Zulu War enthusiast and reenactor Alamo Mo, over on the Alamo Site? He'll get his man to clean your kit.  |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 10, 2004 14:08:52 GMT -5
Hey Bromhead, have you been keeping in touch with Welsh Zulu War enthusiast and reenactor Alamo Mo, over on the Alamo Site? He'll get his man to clean your kit. I have sent him several PM's but he hasn't responded as of yet.  |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 22, 2004 10:14:40 GMT -5
B company 2/24th. Lt Bromhead is the blurred man on the far left and Colour Sgt Bourne is standing second from the left.  |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 22, 2004 11:45:33 GMT -5
Nice photo, Bromhead! I do hope that you were able to recover all of your images after your computer crashed.
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 22, 2004 19:02:47 GMT -5
cool photo
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 27, 2004 21:39:51 GMT -5
Nice photo, Bromhead! I do hope that you were able to recover all of your images after your computer crashed. Nope, they were all lost in a cyber puff of smoke so to speak. i have some that i can scan and the others oare at photobucket....thankfully.  |
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Post by Nefarious on Aug 21, 2005 0:47:20 GMT -5
 Rorke's Drift, at the time of the battle.  Rorke's Drift, Today.  Rorke's Drift,after the battle.  The engagement at Rorke's Drift.  Diorama of Rorke's Drift, at the National Army Museum in London. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Aug 21, 2005 15:38:07 GMT -5
Very Nice Ned..
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Post by Mo Jones on Jan 26, 2006 17:48:31 GMT -5
Happy New Year to you all  Heres my new Zulu War groups web site which was launched at midnight on the 22nd of January 2006 www.zuluwar-usuthu.comMo |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 28, 2006 15:41:39 GMT -5
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 20, 2007 16:56:07 GMT -5
Jan 22/23 1879 the battles of Isandhlwana and Rorkes drift
Natal South Africa.
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Post by Greg C. on Jan 20, 2007 18:32:03 GMT -5
Happy New Year to you all Heres my new Zulu War groups web site which was launched at midnight on the 22nd of January 2006 www.zuluwar-usuthu.comMo happy new years to you mo! |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 20, 2007 20:33:32 GMT -5
Happy New Year to you all Heres my new Zulu War groups web site which was launched at midnight on the 22nd of January 2006 www.zuluwar-usuthu.comMo Wow, i totally missed that post. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 20, 2007 21:09:49 GMT -5
Another year come and gone and me lying here drunk!
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Post by neferetus on Jan 21, 2007 15:15:43 GMT -5
Have you ever been to Rorke's Drift, Bromhead?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 21, 2007 19:45:12 GMT -5
Have you ever been to Rorke's Drift, Bromhead? No i haven't but i wish i could. If i where to go, i would try to visit all of the battlefields of both the Zulu and the 1st and 2nd Boer wars. And the movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn filming locations as well. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 23, 2007 17:22:56 GMT -5
At Isandhlwana, 1,334 British soldiers and 470 African allied soldiers were killed, of a force of 3,000.
Of the 10,000 Zulus who took part in the fight, around 2,000 were killed, or wounded.
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Post by neferetus on Jan 23, 2007 17:42:19 GMT -5
At Rorke's Drift, Bromhead and Chard had 80 men, a 4 man medical unit and 35 hospital patients against 4,000 Zulu warriors. Of these, 15 were killed and almost all were wounded, as compared to 300 Zulu's killed.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 24, 2007 9:44:51 GMT -5
Another year come and gone and me lying here drunk! Well, who told you?  |
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