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Pte. Ashley Goatham of Bredgar

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grandarog:
For Info, This is the Link to Helen's Work.
https://www.anglozuluwar.com/images/Journal_8/J8d_Pte_A_Goatham_Letters_from_Zululand.pdf

Dave Smith:
grandarog. Many thanks for that most interesting but sad account of a brave Kent soldier of the Zulu wars.( Really, I should be thanking Helen Allinson who wrote it but you put it on the KHF). The miss-spelt name probably arose from the S.A. name for a Tribal Chief's area, Induna. From his letters, Ashley sounds very well educated for a private soldier, the mention of Borden makes me wonder whether, as he originated from there, he maybe was educated at Borden( Grammar School)?   JW. Like you, my RAF friends & I have always said how lucky we were not to have been of the age where we had go to fight in a war. 

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