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A&K SPONSOR ANGLO ZULU WAR TALKS

Abercrombie & Kent are proud to be sponsoring a series of talks on the Anglo Zulu War in June 2009. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust are organising the talks in collaboration with Rob Caskie who will be lecturing throughout this period.

The talks will be held from the 3 - 13 June 2009 in various locations across the country. Details of these lectures can be found below: 

- Wednesday 3 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9AS. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Andrew Reed tel; 01293 613 400 andrew.reed@william-reed.co.uk 

- Thursday 4 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by General Jamie Balfour, The Barn, West Stoke Farm, Stoke Charity, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 3PN. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Rob White tel; 07860 251 864 rnswhite@btopenworld.com

- Friday 5 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by Mr John Milne, Headmaster, Clifton College, 32 College Road, Bristol, BS83 3JH. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Nicola Beattie tel; 0117 984 2715 nbeattie@deloitte.co.uk

- Saturday 6 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by Mr Richard Benyon, MP, Englefield Estate, Englefield Road, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5DZ. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Ken McDiarmid tel; 0118 930 2504 mcd@englefield.co.uk

- Monday 8 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, AL9 5NF. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Chris Sheriff tel; 07909 997 615 chris.sherriff@agrovista.co.uk

- Tuesday 9 June - Talk on Rorke's Drift hosted by Mr Guy Chisenhale-Marsh, Gaynes Park, Essex, CM16 7RJ. To reserve places at this lecture please contact John Savage tel; 01371 874 704 thesavages5@hotmail.com

- Wednesday 10 June - Talk on Isandlwana hosted by The Duke of Westminster, Eaton, Eccleston, Chester, CH4 9ET. To reserve places at this lecture please call GWCT London Office tel; 0207 290 0110 ssutcliffe@gct.org.uk

- Thursday 11 June - Talk on Isandlwana hosted by Sir Edward Nall, Holme Pierrepont Hall, Nottinghamshire, HG12 2LS. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Sir Edward and Lady Nall – tel; 0115 966 3634 fergusson.art@btopenworld.com

- Friday 12 June - Talk on Isandlwana hosted by The Marquess of Downshire, Officers Mess, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, DL9 3JS. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Sophie Dingwall tel; 01677 460 033 sdingwall@gct.org.uk 

- Saturday 13 June - Talk on Isandlwana hosted by General Mark Strudwick, The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ. To reserve places at this lecture please contact Andrew Dingwall-Fordyce tel; 01771 613 263 andrew@dingwall-fordyce.fsnet.co.uk

Hosts for each talk will choose which lecture they wish to hear, the Battle of Isandlwana or Rorke's Drift. The first lecture contains a mesmerising account of the Battle of Isandlwana. It was beneath this strange Sphinx-shaped mountain that a British force of nearly 1800 men were surrounded by 25000 Zulu warriors on 22nd January 1879. In little more than 2 hours, more than 1300 men on the British side lay dead.

The second lecture vividly explains how a large force of Zulu warriors chose then to run on from Isandlwana to attack the mission station at Rorke's Drift. It was an epic of human struggle and a triumph of the human spirit, immortalised in the classic movie 'Zulu'.

If you are interested in attending any of these lectures please use the relevant contact details above for the preferred date you would like to attend.

The Anglo Zulu War Lecture/Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Raffle

To celebrate the talks, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust will be organising a raffle with fantastic prizes to be won:

1. A safari in South Africa for 4 people – flights to South Africa, 5 nights at Jembisa (donated by Charles Whitbread) in the Limpopo District and 2 nights at Fugitives Drift (donated by Nicky Rattray) in the KwaZulu-Natal District.
2. A 250 – 300 bird day for eight guns, donated by the Hon Philip Smith, at Campden House Estate in Gloucestershire (to be taken in November/December 2009).
3. A picture of an elephant by Sophie Walbeoffe (donated by Sophie Walbeoffe.)

Tickets will be on sale from February 2009 at various county events as well as at the talks. The closing date will be Friday 17th July 2009 and the draw will take place at the Game Fair, on Sunday 26th July 2009. There will be 3,000 tickets sold.

If you wish to buy a ticket please contact Sophie Sutcliffe on 0207 290 0110 or ssutcliffe@gct.org.uk