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28th December 2001	Ammunition used at Rourkes Drift By Margaret Roughsedge I have been researching Eley Bros. and wonder whether their cartridges were used at Rourkes Drift. Can anyone help, please?
Date	Replies
29th December 2001	Dale If it wernt for the ammo and the guns, the British might have lost!
2nd January 2002	Peter Critchley Hi Margaret, I'm not sure about this one.. I wonder if there is anyone out there that knows.. I'll have a think, and see if I can come up with anything. Peter Webmaster.
3rd January 2002	John Young Margaret, I have the remains of an Eley pin-fire 12 bore cartridge, from the field of Isandlwana, recovered during the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. John
12th January 2002	Margaret Roughsedge Many thanks to all who have replied to the ammo. query. I should be most grateful if anyone can come up with a definite answer. Two pieces of "totally irrelevant" Eley information for anyone interested - In 1841 William Eley was blown to atoms by fulminating powder at his factory".His 3 sons,all under 21, continued the family business. It was finally proven that cholera was a water-borne disease when in 1854 William's widow, who had drinking water brought to her daily from a street pump some miles from her home, died of the disease, along with most of the inhabitants of the street where the pump was situated. Margaret