This is the pistol used by Lt (later Col) JRM Chard VC, Royal Engineers, at the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
It is on show at the Royal Engineers Museum in the Medway Towns. He died of cancer and has a memorial at Rochester Cathedral, Medway Towns.
This is the pistol used by Lt (later Col) JRM Chard VC, Royal Engineers, at the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
It is on show at the Royal Engineers Museum in the Medway Towns. He died of cancer and has a memorial at Rochester Cathedral, Medway Towns.