Rorke's Drift

South Africa, 22nd January 1879

 

Badge of the 24th Regiment

 

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The Defenders of Rorke's Drift

1240 Corporal William Wilson Allen VC

2459 Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne DCM

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead VC

Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard VC

Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley Dalton VC

1362 Private Frederick Hitch VC

1373 Private Alfred Henry Hook VC

716 Private Robert Jones VC

593 Private William Jones VC

Reynolds

Scheiss

1395 Private John Williams VC

 

Men of Harlech sung by the choir of the Royal Regiment of Wales on the anniversary of Rorke's Drift in the chapel at the battlefield in South Africa

 

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