Private Alfred Henry Hook VC by Stuart Liptrot. ART240 and supplied with an original

and supplied with an original drawing signed by Private James Martin

It took around five hours from H hour until the area was deemed secure

just twenty-four hours later

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Private Alfred Henry Hook VC by Stuart Liptrot. ART240 and supplied with an originalL12. Private Alfred Henry Hook VC by Stuart Liptrot. Private Alfred Henry Hook VC won his Victoria Cross while defending Rorkes Drift with his company (B Company) 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot and for heroic actions while inside the burning hospital at Rorkes Drift, 7pm January 1879. During the desperate struggle which took place in the hospital at about 6 pm the Zulus first forced their way into the hospital building where some thirty patients were