20160 - British 24th Foot Casualty No.2 W.Britain-Scenics with a short leather “poke

with a short leather “poke

and development that the roads would bring

And of all the gunner’s positions the absolute most dangerous was that of the waist gunner

A lying prone Marine looks behind him to see if there’s more ammunition coming up

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20160 - British 24th Foot Casualty No.2 W.Britain-Scenics with a short leather “pokeBritish 24th Foot Casualty, No. 2 A little over 1,800 British troops and their African allies were encamped at the foot of Isandlwana hill in the early morning hours of 22 January 1879. By afternoon more than 1,300 of them lay dead. Of the nearly 20,000 Zulu, about 15,000 were engaged in the fighting with an approximate figure of 3,000 killed. The fighting was a desperate, hand to hand struggle with no quarter given by either side. Later that day the