Original Victorian Photograph Album Page - Melvill & Coghill Grave + Storehouse at Rorke's Drift

Original half page from a Victorian photo album with Anglo-Zulu War images front and back (image size approx 8 x 6 ins). On the front is a photo of the graves of Lts Melvill and Coghill, 1/24th, who were killed attempting to save the Queen's Colour of their battalion at the battle of iSandlwana. The image shows the cross recently erected by the instructions of Sir Bartle Frere.

On the reverse is a photograph of the storehouse at Rorke's Drift after the battle. The building was originally built as James Rorke's home, and was later used by the Rev Otto Witt as a mission church; at the time of the battle it was employed by the British as a storehouse. The photograph shows the stone walls erected after the battle, when the post was occupied by the British for several months.

Note - the blue tint on the images is from the scanning process and does not affect the photographs themselves in any way.