Natal Mounted Police
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The Natal Mounted Police were the colonial police force of the Colony of Natal created in 1874 by Major John Dartnell, a farmer and retired officer in the British Army as a semi-military force to bols
Member of the Natal Mounted Police displaying his kit in the early 1880s
Major-General Sir J. G. Dartnell
The Natal Mounted Police make their way to the front under darkness - The Illustrated London News (1879)
Men of the Natal Mounted Police
Anthony Durnford
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Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony William Durnford was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served in the Anglo-Zulu War. Breveted colonel effective 31 December 1878, Durnford is mainly known fo
Natal Mounted Police
…second detachment 25 were killed in the battle with 21 killed fighting alongside 19 Natal Carbineers in a 'last stand' defending Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Durnford. Three men of the NMP were in hospital at Rorke's Drift where they fought in the Battle of Rorke's Drift, where one of them, Sidney Hunter, was killed…
Anthony Durnford in 1870