Posádka zásobovací základny Rorkes´s Drift (1879)

22. January 1879 occurred under the african mountain of Isandlwana the battle, in which 22 thousand native Zulus, armed with spears and old předovkami, massacred less than 2 thousand soldiers of the british colonial units of the armed jednorannými zadovkami Martini-Henry vz. 1871, two field guns and a battery-thrower of missiles. Description of the battle HERE. The same day attacked the 3-4 thousand Zulu british supply base Rorke's Drift, hájenou 155 members of the british army. Base attack lasted (description of the siege of HERE)...

a List of the defenders of Rorke's Drift by the military departments and components:

Staff general Chelmsdorfa
Maybin, G.W., staff sergeant

Battery N of 5. brigade Royal artillery
Cantwell, John, an artilleryman, (designed on the Medal for excellent behavior)
Evans, Abraham, gunner
Howard, Arthur, gunner
Lewis, Thomas, lance corporal of artillery

5. setnina Royal engineers
Chard, John Rouse Merriott, lieutenant, acting commander of the base (designed for Victoria's cross)
Robson, Charles John, Chardův servant

2. battalion 3. (Východokentského) infantry regiment (the Buffs)
Milne, Frederick, sgt.

1. battalion 24. (2. Warwickshirského) infantry regiment
Beckett, William, private (died of wounds)
Desmond, Patrick, private
Horrigan, William, private (killed in action)
Jenkins, James, private (killed in action)
Nicholas, Edward, private (killed in action)
Payton, Thomas, private
Roy, William, private (designed the Medal for excellent behavior)
Turner, Henry, private
Waters, John, private
Wilson, Edward, sergeant

2. battalion 24. (2. Warwickshirského) infantry regiment
Adams, Robert, private, setnina D (killed in action)
Allen, William Wilson, corporal, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Ashton, James, private, setnina B
Barry, Thomas, private, setnina B
Bennett, William, private, setnina B
Bessell, William, lance corporal, setnina B
Bly, John, private, setnina B
Bourne, Frank, staff sergeant, setnina B (designed on the Medal for excellent behavior)
Bromhead, Gonville, lieutenant, commander of company B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Bromwich, Joseph, private, setnina B
Buckley, Thomas, private, setnina B
Burke, Thomas, private, setnina B
Bush, James, private, setnina B
Camp, William Henry, private, setnina B
Chester, Thomas, private, setnina B
Chick, James, private, setnina D (killed in action)
Clayton, Thomas, private, setnina B
Cole, Robert, private, setnina F
Cole, Thomas, private, setnina B (killed in action)
Collins, Thomas, private, setnina B
Connolly, John, private, setnina C
Connors, Anthony, private, setnina B
Connors, Timothy, private, setnina B
Cooper, William, private, setnina F
Davies, George, private, setnina B
Davis, William Henry, private, setnina B
Daw, Thomas, private, setnina B
Deacon, George, alias George D. Power, private, setnina B
Dean, Michael, private, setnina B
Dick, James, private, setnina B
Dicks, William, private, setnina B
Driscoll, Thomas, private, setnina B
Dunbar, James, private, setnina B
Edwards, George, alias George Edward Orchard, private, setnina B
Evans, Frederick, private, setnina H
Fagan, John, private, setnina B (killed in action)
French, George, corporal, setnina B
Galgey, Patrick, the drummer, setnina D
Gallagher, Henry, sergeant, setnina B
Gee, Edward, private, setnina B
Hagan, James, private, setnina B
Halley, William, lance corporal, setnina B
Harris, John, private, setnina B
Hayden, Garret, private, setnina D, (killed in action)
Hayes, Patrick, the drummer, setnina B
Hitch, Frederick, private, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Hook, Alfred Henry, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Jobbins, John, private, setnina B
Jones, Evan, alias Patrick Cosgrove, private, setnina B
Jones, John, private, setnina B
Jones, John, private, setnina B
Jones, Robert, private, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Jones, William, private, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Judge, Peter, private, setnina B
Kears, Patrick, private, setnina B
Keefe, James, drummer, setnina B
Key, John, corporal, setnina B
Kiley, Michael, private, setnina B
Lewis, David, alias James Owen, private, setnina B
Lines, Henry, private, setnina B
Lloyd, David, private, setnina B
Lockhart, Thomas, private, setnina B
Lodge, Joshua, private, setnina B
Lynch, Thomas Michael, private, setnina B
Lyons, John, corporal, setnina B
Lyons. John, private, setnina And
Manley, John, private, setnina And
Marshall, James, private, setnina B
Martin, Henry, private, setnina B
Mason, Charles, private, setnina B
Maxfield, Robert, sergeant, setnina G (killed in action)
Meehan, John, drummer, setnina And
Minehan, Michael, private, setnina B
Moffatt, Thomas, private, setnina B
Morris, Augustus, private, setnina B
Morris, Frederick, private, setnina B
Morrison, Thomas, private, setnina B
Murphy, John, private, setnina B
Neville, William, private, setnina B
Norris, Robert, private, setnina B
Osborne, William, private, setnina B
Parry, Samuel, private, setnina B
Partridge, William, private, setnina G
Pitt, Samuel. Private, private, setnina B
Robinson, Edward, private, setnina B
Ruck, James, private, setnina B
Savage, Edward, private, setnina B
Saxty, Alfred, corporal, setnina B
Scanlon, John, private, setnina And (killed in action)
Sears, Arthur, private, setnina And
Shearman, George, private, setnina B
Shergold, John, private, setnina B
Smith, George, sergeant, setnina B
Smith, John, private, setnina B
Stevens ,Thomas, private, setnina B
Tasker, William, private, setnina B
Taylor, Frederick, private, setnina B
Taylor, James, in charge of a sergeant, setnina E
Taylor, Thomas Edward, private, setnina B
Thomas, John alias Peter Sawyer, private, setnina B
Thompson, John, private, setnina B
Tobin, Michael, private, setnina B
Tobin, Patrick, private, setnina B
Todd, William John, private, setnina B
Tongue, Robert, private, setnina B
Wall, John, private, setnina B
Whetton, Alfred, private, setnina B
Wilcox, William, private, setnina B
Williams, John, alias John Fielding, private, setnina B (designed on the Victoria cross)
Williams, John, private, setnina E
Williams, Joseph, private, setnina B (killed in action)
Williams, Thomas, in charge of sergeant (died of wounds)
Windridge, Joseph, sergeant, setnina B
Woods, Caleb, private, setnina B

90. regiment of light infantry
Graham, James, alias Daniel Sheehan, corporal

Corps of army services
Attwood, Francis, lance corporal (designed the Medal for excellent behavior)

Department of the army supply and transport
Byrne, Louis Alexander, executive storekeeper (killed in action)
Dalton, James Langley, executive assistant to the commissioner (designed for Victoria's cross)
Dunne, Walter Alphonsus, assistant commissioner

Army medical department and army hospital corps
Reynolds, James Henry, major, the doctor (designed for Victoria's cross)
Pearse, a nurse, a servant of dr. Reynolds
Ludding, Thomas, private
McMahon, Michael, private (designed the Medal for excellent behavior)
Miller, Robert, corporal

1. battalion 3. the regiment Natalského native contingent
Adendorff, James, lt.
Mayer, Jessy H, corporal
Unknown native of Mkungova tribe (killed in action)

2. battalion 3. the regiment Natalského native contingent
Anderson, Michael, corporal, (killed in the desert)
Doughty, William, corporal
Scammell, Carl, corporal
Schiess, Ferdnand Christian, corporal, (designed on the Victoria cross)
Wilson, John, corporal

Natalská mounted police
Green, Robert S., a police officer
Hunter, Sydney H., a police officer (killed in action)
Lugg, Henry, cop

Representing the military chaplain
Smith, George. the reverend (rewarded with the place of the standing of the military chaplain)
Daniels, a native servant of the reverend Smith

Source:
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