Henry Curling

Colonel Henry Thomas Curling was a Royal Artillery officer of the British Army who served between 1868 to 1902. He fought in the AngloZulu war and during the Battle of Isandlwana was one of only a few British officers to survive in fact he was the only British front line survivor. Afterwards he wrote a dramatic report on the battle and several letters home that described it further. After the Zulu war he saw service in Afghanistan, Aldershot and Egypt. The letters he wrote during the Zulu war were posthumously published in the book The Curling letters of the Zulu War there was an awful slaughter coauthored by Adrian Greaves and Brian Best.

Henry Curling was born onJuly 1847 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, the son of Dr Henry Curling and Mary Ann . He was educated at Marlborough College and then the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1868.

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