Then there's the Zulu War, of course, and I do have a fallen warrior lurking in my tree! Farrier Sergeant Robert Whinham, N Battery, 5th Brigade, Royal Artillery. He was born at Whitehouse Farm, Alnwick, his father, William, being gamekeeper to the Duke and living at Brizlee.
He fell at the Battle of Isandhlwana on 22 January 1879. According to the Alnwick Mercury, another Alnwick man also died, Gunner Marshall, son of J Marshall, photographer. It also states that every officer and man attached to the same two guns were also slain at the time. Robert was a regular, based at Woolwich.
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