Gallery and Diorama Photos
Arend and Clare have put together a magnificent three stage diorama of the battle at Rorke’s Drift – 22/23 January 1879.
The photos are labelled by each Scenario:- Sc 1 = Opening Overtures; Sc 2 = Desperate Defense and Sc 3 = Assault Aftermath.
Sc. 3 Major frontal attack – storeroom area
Sc. 3 Fire in the hospital
Sc. 3 The redoubt and last defense
Sc. 3 Fighting around the Kraal
All 3 dioramas together
Sc. 3 Full view of attack along ridge
Sc. 2 Full view orchard to mountain
Sc. 2 Orchard to Kraal
Sc. 2 – Flame throwers outside
the storeroom
Sc. 3 Pile of bodies at the ridge
Sc. 1 Inside the hospital. Patients and soldiers at the loopholes
Sc. 1 stacks of mealie bags outside the storeroom. building the biscuit box wall. The dropped tents and Zulus coming from the top right side of the picture.
Sc. 3 Storeroom verandah
Sc. 1 building biscuit box wall and mealie stacks
Sc. 2 5ft wall to mealie barricades
Sc. 2 Defense around the hospital and inside
Sc. 1 The Zulus are coming!
Sc. 1 water barrel in the yard
Sc. 1 Skirmish party returning – Zulus following