Veterans Honour Rorke's Drift Hero with New Gravestone

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A HERO of the Anglo-Zulu War has finally been honoured with a new gravestone - 125 years after his death and almost 70 years since the original headstone was destroyed.

A special ceremony at Efford Cemetery in Plymouth remembered Sergeant Francis Attwood DCM, a survivor of the battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879, which was immortalised in the film Zulu starring Michael Caine. A corporal at the time, he was one of just 130 soldiers who defended a British garrison and mission station against 4,000 Zulus.

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Veterans Honour Rorke's Drift Hero with New Gravestone

More than 1,000 of his comrades were killed in ba...

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