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Postcard Pack 0033. (PC)
PPACK0033. Postcard Pack 0032. Titles include : DHM926. Defence of Rorkes Drift by Brian Palmer. DHM022 Defence of Rorkes Drift by Alphonse De Neuville. DHM560 Plugging the Gap by Mark Churms. DHM561 Into the Fire by Mark Churms. Set of 4 postcards. All postcards size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Items in this pack : Item #1 - Click to view individual item PC926. Defence of Rorkes Drift by Brian Palmer. Men of the 24th Foot defend Rorkes Drift against an overwhelming number of Zulus near the barricades, and the hand to hand fighting. Surgeon Reynolds can be seen attending a wounded soldier. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #2 - Click to view individual item P022. Defence of Rorkes Drift, 22nd January 1879 by Alphonse de Neuville. By about 6pm the Zulu attacks had extended all around the front of the post, and fighting raged at hand-to-hand along the mealie-bag wall. Lieutenant Chard himself took up a position on the barricade, firing over the mealie-bags with a Martini-Henry, whilst Lieutenant Bromhead directed any spare men to plug the gaps in the line. The men in the yard and on the front wall were dangerously exposed to the fire of Zulu marksmen posted in the rocky terraces on Shiyane (Oskarsberg) hill behind the post. Several men were hit, including Acting Assistant Commissary Dalton, and Corporal Allen of the 14th. Surgeon Reynolds treated the wounded as best he could despite the fire. Once the veranda at the front of the hospital had been abandoned, the Zulus had mounted a determined attack on the building itself, setting fire to the thatched roof with spears tied with burning grass. The defenders were forced to evacuate the patients room by room, eventually passing them out through a small window into the open yard. Shortly after 6pm Chard decided that the Zulu pressure was too great, and ordered a withdrawal to a barricade of biscuit boxes which had been hastily erected across the yard, from the corner of the store-house to the front mealie-bag wall. In this small compound the garrison would fight for their lives throughout most of the coming night. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #3 - Click to view individual item P560. Plugging the Gap by Mark Churms. Lt Gonville Bromhead stands over Private Hitch, B Co. 2/24th. Rorkes Drift, front barricade Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #4 - Click to view individual item P561. Into the Fire by Mark Churms Crouching low behind their shields, the warriors of the uThulwans, iNdlondo and uDloko regiments advance around the foot of Shiyane hill. Led by their commander, Prince Dabulamnzi kaMpnade, the main Zulu force attacks the British outpost at Rorkes Drift, 4.50pm, 2nd January 1879. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Website Price: £ 8.00
To purchase these prints individually at their normal retail price would cost £8.80 . By buying them together in this special pack, you save £0.8
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