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Date	Original Topic
5th November 2003	Capt E.S. Browne By Cllive Dickens Can someone please help me I have read two conflicting reports on the Award of the V.C. to Capt E.S. Browne of the M.I one says it was for saving a mans life at the battle of Hlobane and another says it was for saving a mans life at the Battle of Kambula. which is correct ? Clive
Date	Replies
5th November 2003	John Young Clive, I've actually written two articles on this very subject. The second expands on the first, with further evidence. Beyond any doubt Lieutenant (local rank of Captain) E.S. Browne's Victoria Cross was actually for Khambula, and not Hlobane. John Y.
5th November 2003	Martin Everett Dear Clive, Browne's VC is engraved with the date of the action - 29 March 1879.
6th November 2003	Clive Dickens John ,Martin Thank you both very much for the information, but I just wish these people who write books would do their research much better. Thank you both again Clive