you are currently viewing: Discussion Forum
 
 

 
 

The Rorke's Drift VC Discussion Forum
(View Discussion Rules)

** IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL USERS **

PLEASE NOTE: This forum is now inactive and is provided for reference purposes only. The live forum is available at www.rorkesdriftvc.com/forum


Click here to order by the latest topics.

Date StartedTopics (page 16 of 106)Replies
5th April 2005New Zulu venture!
Started by Colum O'Rourke
The reason I am asking all these questions is because I have to write a three hundred page book relating to any-time in History. I chose the AZW and e... (click to view)
Latest Post: 7th April 2005
5
3rd April 2005Chelmsford
Started by Peter Harman
I'm convinced that Chelmsford was one of the worst officers I have had the misfortune to read about he was no better that Haig during the 1914-1918 wa... (click to view)
Latest Post: 7th April 2005
23
3rd February 2005Query.
Started by Brian Crane
Is anyone aware of what happened to: Murphy, John. Private. 25B/662, B Company, 24th. Foot. He may be a relative of mine who retired as a CSM to Indi... (click to view)
Latest Post: 7th April 2005
5
5th April 2005Who was Orderly Hall?
Started by Colum O'Rourke
Who was Mister Hall? Was he a member of Shepherd's medical team at Isandhlwana or was he part of another unit? Thanks Colum... (click to view)
Latest Post: 6th April 2005
5
4th April 2005Chatham Zulu Weekend
Started by Dewi Evans
Just arrived home from a fantastic weekend at the RE Museum, Chatham. The outside displays by the Diehards, 17th Lancers and the Zulus were out of thi... (click to view)
Latest Post: 6th April 2005
6
3rd April 2005Attacking Rorke's Drift
Started by Chris
I really do apologise if this is the billionth time this has been asked. But. Why didn't the 4000 strong Zulu attack all at once? I remember reading... (click to view)
Latest Post: 5th April 2005
12
4th April 2005Lt William Vereker
Started by Colum O'Rourke
Was Mister Vereker just like the character portrayed in Zulu Dawn. Was he a son of a peer and was he linked to Chelmsford like in the film. What unit ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
1
4th April 2005Lieutenant Charles Harford of the Natal Native Contingent
Started by Colum O'Rourke
Does anyone have any information relating to Mister Harford of the NNC. I could do with an excellent biographical detail. Thanks... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
1
4th April 2005Surgeon-Major Shepherd and Pulleine's background
Started by Colum O'Rourke
Does anyone have any good info about Mister Peter Shepherd of the ADH and Colonel Pulleine. Where were they born? educated? married? etc. ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
1
3rd April 2005Your views
Started by Chris
Has anyone purchased the Zulu War Battlefields video or Zulu Dawn out-takes DVD from the rorkesdriftvc.com shop? If so, can they tell me anything abo... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
1
3rd April 2005Another Book
Started by Chris
Don't get me wrong, I love reading lots of books about the AZW! The book I'm referring to is a new book by some chap featured in an article a week o... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
4
27th March 2005Wages
Started by Trevor
Anyone know what the actors and extra's got payed for making ZULU? I'll bet the clever ones took a % of the box office. And I'll bet Stanley Baker wa... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
5
25th March 2005The Transvaal Boers of 1879
Started by Paul Cubbin
I find the C19th Boers an interesting people. They left their European homes, for one reason or another, in order to start a new life in southern Afri... (click to view)
Latest Post: 4th April 2005
17
1st April 2005What would have happened had Rorkes Drift fallen in the first Zulu wave?
Started by Invader
Ok so lets play pretend. I hope this topic hasn't been done before. It's a trend these days to do a "what would have happened if..." book (e... (click to view)
Latest Post: 3rd April 2005
8
20th March 2005Bring Home The Dead.
Started by Peter Harman
Lets us exhume the remains of our fallen men at Isandhlwana and bring them back to the greens fields of England. Giving everony one them all a full m... (click to view)
Latest Post: 3rd April 2005
10
30th September 2002Ammunition expenditure
Started by Chris N
Given that the Rorke's drift defenders got through a large amount of ammunition and the fact that the defenders must have killed many with the bayonet... (click to view)
Latest Post: 3rd April 2005
22
7th March 2005GRIFFITH? LLEWELLYN?
Started by s p mann
In the Knight book "Zulu War- Then & Now" are photos of dead officers from Isandhl. A second lieutenant from 2/24 whose name is one or... (click to view)
Latest Post: 2nd April 2005
20
1st April 2005Invite.
Started by Graham Mason
Dear Max Hastings , You may not be aware that on April 2/3rd a ZULU weekend will be held in the RE Museum in Chatham ... (click to view)
Latest Post: 1st April 2005
3
28th March 2005If not original tunics, what about the rifles?
Started by Bill M.
I note from the post below, that original Isandhlwana tunics are apparently not known to exist. However, are there any Martini-Henrys around that mig... (click to view)
Latest Post: 1st April 2005
3
26th March 2005last stand
Started by kieran
at the end of the movie zulu you see the regement in that 3 lines thing were ones knelling ones standing and the other on firing steps did this last b... (click to view)
Latest Post: 1st April 2005
18
Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106