Eagle-eyed aficionados of the 1964 war film epic Zulu will recall the actor David Kernan in the role of Private Frederick Hitch, one of the British soldiers successfully defending Rorke’s Drift hospital and storehouse during the 19th-century Anglo-Zulu war.
“How can I shoot them if I can’t see them?” Kernan says as he mounts the ramparts. Moments later his character suffers a bullet-wound, but still manages to keep communication with the hospital open and supply ammunition to his comrades, the actions which earned Hitch a Victoria Cross.
