Rather, he had had an uncle, Henry Dennis, who had settled as a squatter in the Darling Downs in the early 1840s, but who had perished in the sinking of the Sovereign near Moreton Bay in 1847.
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The cartridge was most famously employed by British forces during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879—which included the Battle of Isandlwana and the Battle of Rorke's Drift—as well as during the Sudanese Campaign of 1884–1898, and in various other colonial conflicts in Africa and India.
The south boundary of the land added to Utrecht ran from Rorke's Drift on the Buffalo to a point on the Pongola River.
Dickey (his full name was Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey) was born in Belfast on 1 July 1894, the son of Edward O'Rorke Dickey.
Maurice Charles O'Connell (1768–1848), commander of forces and lieutenant-governor of New South Wales
On 9 May 1832, he was transferred to Gratz, where he was demobilized on 8 May 1834 with a pension on 500 florins.
While he missed the events at Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, he did witness subsequent actions including the final Battle of Ulundi He was also with the group who discovered the body of the Prince Imperial.
Barry O'Rorke (born 1989), Irish Gaelic football and hurling player
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Patrick O'Rorke (1837–1863), Irish-American colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
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Sir Maurice O'Rorke (1830–1916), New Zealand Speaker of the House 1879–1902
Brian O'Rorke was chosen as the architect for the project on the grounds that he had never designed such a house before and would therefore be open to Lady Rayner's ideas.
In Flashman and the Tiger, during the battle of Rorke's Drift, Moran demonstrates amazing speed and unearthly accuracy with a Remington M1875 .45 revolver.
Major Sir Edmund Gonville Bromhead (1791–1870) 3rd Baronet, was the father of Gonville Bromhead who won the Victoria Cross at the 1879 battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War.
Other notable members of the Society have included the military historians Ian Knight (one of the Society’s founder members) a noted expert on the Zulu War and Rorke’s Drift, Michael Barthorp author of books on the North West Frontier, the Boer War and the Sudan campaigns, and the late Kenneth Griffith, actor, documentary film maker, Boer war historian and author of a book on the siege and relief of Ladysmith.
Canon William Murrell Lummis MC (4 June 1886 – 2 November 1985) was a British military historian most noted for the research he conducted on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Rorke's Drift.