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De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 on display at Duxford. #Duxford #Aircraft #SeaVixen

Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk.Ib Z7015 of the Shuttleworth Collection. #Shuttleworth #SeaHurricane #Hawker #OldWarden

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P3717 at Duxford. #Aircraft #Duxford #HawkerHurricane

Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 R4118
In markings of 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAF.

Delivered to 605 Squadron on the 17th August 1940, R4118 saw action during the Battle of Britain based out of RAF Croydon. R4118 flew 49 sorties, shooting down or damaging five enemy aircraft.
#Duxford #Aircraft

Hawker Hurricane Mk. I ‘P3717’ (G-HITT) at Old Warden.
Markings of 253 Squadron RAF. #HawkerHurricane #Aircraft #Duxford #Hawker #Hurricane #Planes #Warbird

Memorial to Lt's Melvill and Coghill killed at Battle of Isandlwana 22nd January 1879.
Lieutenants Melville and Coghill were not found until the 4th February 1879 and were buried where they died.
They were then reburied in an isolated grave on 14th April where today is marked by a memorial.

Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill who was killed at the Battle of Isandlwana on the 22nd January 1879.

Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill.
Killed at the Battle of Isandlwana on the 22nd January 1879.

'Saving the Queen's Colours'
A romanticised view of Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill saving the Colour at the battle of Isandlwana.
Painting by French artist Alphonse de Neuville (1880).

Battle of Isandlwana 22nd January 1879 in 2010.

Battle of Isandlwana 22nd January 1879 in 2010.

Looking up at the mountain of Isandlwana in 2010 from the area of one of the rifle companies which were deployed some 800 yards from the main camp.

Isandhlwana Mountain after the battle of the 22nd January 1879 looking across the Neck where the main tented area of the camp was sited.
(© National Army Museum)

Graves at Isandlwana in 2010.

146 years ago today on the 22nd January 1879 a British force camped at Isandlwana were defeated by a Zulu Army of 20,000 warriors.
The British lost 52 officers and 806 other ranks killed plus 471 Africans were killed fighting for the British.
Zulu casualties estimated at some 2,000 dead.

War Memorial at the Parish of Eriswell (near Lakenheath)
#WarMemorial

Everton (Bedfordshire) War Memorial in St Mary's Churchyard.

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918"

#WarMemorial

Bedfordshire Regiment Boer War Memorial at the Swan Hotel in Bedford.
Unveiled on the 2nd June 1904 the Memorial stands outside the Swan Hotel across the road from the Embankment beside the River Ouse.
Represents an infantry soldier in khaki service dress, and in heavy marching order.
#WarMemorial

Was lucky enough to be invited by the 100th Air Wing back in 2009 to watch F-15 Strike Eagles out of RAF Lakenheath being refuelled by a Kc-135 Tanker over the North Sea.
The 100th Air Wing (100 ARW) is based out of RAF Mildenhall. #Aircraft #Wow #F15

Was lucky enough to be invited by the 100th Air Wing back in 2009 to watch F-15 Strike Eagles out of RAF Lakenheath being refuelled by a Kc-135 Tanker over the North Sea.
The 100th Air Wing (100 ARW) is based out of RAF Mildenhall. #Aircraft #Wow #F15

Was lucky enough to be invited by the 100th Air Wing back in 2009 to watch F-15 Strike Eagles out of RAF Lakenheath being refuelled by a Kc-135 Tanker over the North Sea.
The 100th Air Wing (100 ARW) is based out of RAF Mildenhall. #Aircraft #Wow #F15

Was lucky enough to be invited by the 100th Air Wing back in 2009 to watch F-15 Strike Eagles out of RAF Lakenheath being refuelled by a Kc-135 Tanker over the North Sea.
The 100th Air Wing (100 ARW) is based out of RAF Mildenhall. #Aircraft #Wow #F15

Was lucky enough to be invited by the 100th Air Wing back in 2009 to watch F-15 Strike Eagles out of RAF Lakenheath being refuelled by a Kc-135 Tanker over the North Sea.
The 100th Air Wing (100 ARW) is based out of RAF Mildenhall. #Aircraft #Wow #F15

The drift (Buffalo River) at Rorke's Drift in 2010.
It is here the british crossed into Zulu Land on the 11th January 1879.
In the film "Zulu" we first see Lieutenant Chard building a bridge at this location.
The original photograph bottom right is the same area in 1879. #Zulu #RorkesDrift

Nigel Green in the film Zulu (1964) portraying Colour Sergeant Bourne and the real Colour Sergeant Bourne later on in life. #Zulu

Michael Caine and Stanley Baker who played Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead VC and Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard VC in the 1964 film Zulu and illustrations of the real Bromhead and Chard below.
( Illustrations © Illustrated London News Group) #Zulu

Memorial to the fallen Zulu Warriors who were killed attacking Rorkes Drift 22/23rd January 1879. #Zuluwar #RorkesDrift #Zulu

Memorial to the defender's of Rorke's Drift
(B Company 2nd Warwickshire regiment, 24th Foot) who defended the mission station on the 22nd/23rd January 1879.
Photographs taken in 2012. #Zuluwar #RorkesDrift #SouthAfrica

Farner Werke (FW) 'C-3605' Schlepp in markings off the Swiss Air Force at Duxford in 2018. #Aircraft #Duxford #Airshow

Fairey Gannet ECM.6 on display in hangar 3 at Duxford. #Duxford #Museum #Aircraft