“I AM NOT DEAD”
REPORT IN SYDNEY PAPER DENIED RORKE’S DRIFT SURVIVOR Reed. Noon. LONDON, Friday. Arthur Howard, survivor of Rorke's Drift, was surprised when he saw a report that he died in Sydney. He told the “Daily Mirror”: “1 have been living in Kent for 40 years and have never been to Australia. As you see, 1 am quite alive. How the Sydney Art Gallery can have a picture of me leaving the burninghospital shouldering a man I cannot understand. It was as much as 1 could do to leave the building myself, when the Zulus burned it, without carrying anyone. “There were only 'S6 of us and I cannot think there was another Arthur Howard there,” he added.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 11
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120“I AM NOT DEAD” Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 11
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