Battle of Rorke's Drift close to defeating the much smaller garrison, but were ultimately repelled. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. Rorke's Drift, known as "kwaJimu" ("Jim's Land") in the Zulu language, was a mission station and the former trading post of James Rorke, an Irish merchant. It was located near a drift, or ford, on the Buffalo (Mzinyathi) River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. On 9 January 1879, the British No. 3 (Centre) Column, under Lord Chelmsford, arrived and encamped
Jack Stanley and became independent in 1930. Stanley succeeded House as its general secretary in 1939. Stanley was known as a left-wing activist. He was a member of the board of the Labour Publishing Society, which launched the Socialist Fellowship in 1949, and published "Socialist Outlook", a newspaper associated with Gerry Healy. Under his leadership, the union affiliated to the Movement for Colonial Freedom, Stanley announced that he would retire in May 1957, but he died before he was able to do so. Jack Stanley Jack Stanley (1885 – 2 April 1957) was a British trade union leader. Born in Liverpool, Stanley