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In the classic war film "Zulu", Private Fred Hitch is called a "slovenly soldier".
He nevertheless goes on to be awarded the Victoria Cross at the battle of Rorke's Drift.
But the story about what happened to him afterwards, as an invalid veteran in Victorian Britain that is every bit as fascinating, working for the world's oldest security company, losing his VC, accused of theft and becoming a London cabbie.

A story of what happened to Victorian soldiers when then entered civvy street.

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The forgotten Victorian scandal behind Britain's favourite poem - Rudyard Kipling's "If-".

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In 1842, the man who coined the phrase "The Great Game" was executed whilst playing it in a remote city in central Asia.

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How Winston Churchill's recommendation for a Victoria Cross, during the Anglo-Boer War, was blocked by Lord Kitchener.

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August 1900. Five hundred colonial troops. Two thousand Boer fighters. Thirteen days of siege — and a refusal to surrender that changed how the world understood the ANZAC spirit.

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