John Chard of admiration and regard for a brave soldier from his sovereign". In 1899 a stained glass memorial window dedicated to Chard was installed in the south wall of the church's chancel. Another memorial donated by the Royal Engineers was placed in Rochester Cathedral. A display at the Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, Kent commemorates Chard's leadership at Rorke's Drift and includes the Webley Revolver he used in the battle. Welsh actor Stanley Baker portrayed Chard in the 1964 film "Zulu" which depicted the defence of Rorke's Drift. Baker acquired Chard's campaign medal and a "cast copy" of his Victoria Cross
Stanley Baker released he played another villain role for Box and Thomas, "Campbell's Kingdom" (1957), opposite Dirk Bogarde, shot in Italy (substituting for Canada). He was meant to make "Tread Softly Stranger" with Diana Dors but George Baker was cast instead. "Hell Drivers" became a minor hit and at the end of the year, exhibitors voted Baker the seventh most popular British star at the British box office for 1957 (after Bogarde, Kenneth More, Peter Finch, John Gregson, Norman Wisdom and John Mills, and before Ian Carmichael, Jack Hawkins and Belinda Lee). "Hell Drivers" success saw Baker play a series of tough