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24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment Of Foot, Pvt. James Jenkins, and Pvt. David Jenkins - two figures - RETIRED
24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment Of Foot, Pvt. James Jenkins, and Pvt. David Jenkins - two figures - RETIRED
Item Number: JJCLUB-2012B
Price: $72.00
Type: Infantry
Period: Zulu War
Scale: 1/30 Scale
24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment Of Foot, Pvt. James Jenkins, and Pvt. David Jenkins
Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded for this famous conflict but, like many of the ranks, 295 David Jenkins, 2nd Battn. 24th Regiment.received only a standard Zulu Wars medal. His name was omitted from the official roll of honour and he remained unrecognised even by his own regimental museum as a defender of Rorke's Drift possibly because he had been a member of a different division of the Regiment to the other soldiers at the mission.
Although he was introduced to King Edward VII on his royal visit to Swansea in 1904 and despite overwhelming evidence of his presence at Rorke's Drift , he became the forgotten man, forgotten by history and historians.
It was only when one of David Jenkin's descendants discovered a Bible which had been awarded only to those who had survived that bloody day that conclusive proof of his claim to be a Rorke's Drift Hero was accepted. David Jenkins died in 1912 and is buried in Cwmgelli Cemetery, Treboeth.
It was reported that Sergt. Wilson, Ptes. Payton, Desmond, 295 Jenkins and Roy, had been sent to the rear with prisoners, according to the letter written by Col. Sergt. Wm. Edwards (kia Isandhlwana).
It was most likely David Jenkins, was the soldier who was reported to have saved Chard, by shouting for him to duck his head down, at a key moment in the battle, when the person behind Chard was hit by a sniper bullet.
He was later to be one of a handful of soldiers in 1879 to be asked to act as models for Lady Butler's famous painting “The Defence of Rorke's Drift.” Her depiction of the battle, a favourite of Queen Victoria's, now hangs in St. James' Palace in London.
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