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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson

ORIGINAL: Tom Hunter

There is a movie called Zulu Dawn about the battle of Rourke's Drift which is the British defeat that occurred a day or two before the battle depicted in the movie Zulu.

It is not as good a film as Zulu, but they had a lot of extras and the battle scenes are impressive. You can watch Zulu Dawn and then Zulu and get a good feel for the first two fights of the campaign.

GMF keeps hinting that a fuller account of Rourkes Drift is forth coming along with Sir Harrys exploits in the US Civil War and Mexican Revolution

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

The Martini-Henry Mark II to be prescise. Manufactured from 1877-1881.

ORIGINAL: Oldsweat

The Martini is indeed great fun to shoot, although I had to have the brass custom made for mine (strangely the 7-11 doesn't stock .455 x .577), nice smooth action.

ORIGINAL: Monkey

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, was my great great great uncle on my mothers side of the family. thanks to my brothers tireless family tree digging.

Apparently he was a rather quiet reserved man, in fact he didn't even write a report of the battle, either official or personal, later he became very deaf, and finally died of typhoid at Allahabad India on 9th Feb 1891, he was only 49.

Tankerace, .45 ammo is what you need, it is available, I fired a Martini Henry when I lived in New Zealand and really enjoyed it, its a heavy though very accurate rifle to shoot, I was able to kill watermelons at 200yds without any trouble [:)]

This is an incredible film - subject is the real life trial of the Australian officers who "disappeared" some missionaries giving intel to the Boers in the Great Anglo- Boer War.

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

With all respect to Monkey and his family tree (seriously, I mean no disrespect), with a name like Gonville Bromhead, Mokey's great, great, great uncle probably learned to fight at a very young age.

I always liked his character in the movie. He came across as reserved and sensible (great Brittish qualities). He also seemed a fairly peaceful man. One of the more real "lines" I heard in the movie was "How many actions have I fought? Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?"

ORIGINAL: Monkey

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, was my great great great uncle on my mothers side of the family. thanks to my brothers tireless family tree digging.

Apparently he was a rather quiet reserved man, in fact he didn't even write a report of the battle, either official or personal, later he became very deaf, and finally died of typhoid at Allahabad India on 9th Feb 1891, he was only 49.

Tankerace, .45 ammo is what you need, it is available, I fired a Martini Henry when I lived in New Zealand and really enjoyed it, its a heavy though very accurate rifle to shoot, I was able to kill watermelons at 200yds without any trouble [:)]

I would think that you are quite right niceguy, its not one of the best names you could have been given I think the family back then went for odd firstnames though, there's a Becher a Benson and an Everard ! in the family tree as well, with monickers like those, they had to be tough, I guess its a victorian version of Johnny Cash's a boy named sue