Zulu War Rorke's Drift 1879 medal sells for record sum at Dix Noonan Webb auction
“Zulus, Sir. Thousands of ‘em” - one of the classic lines from the 1964 film starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine that brought the heroic defence of Rorke’s Drift to public attention.
The 1879 action was little more than a skirmish given the numbers involved and the fact that earlier…