British Special Forces were dispatched to pluck the stranded workers from the desert and fly them to the safety of Malta
when British remnants of the defeat at Isandhlwana struggled into the camp
Decorated for conspicuous bravery and devotion to the wounded at Rorkes drift
115 and ordered to sail due east or be attacked
he had shot down Major Richard Raymond-Barker earlier in the dogfight - the British pilot being killed in the resulting crash
The High Passes by David Pentland. (GS) SQN253 British Special Forces were dispatchedDHM6234GS. The High Passes by David Pentland. The Carnic Alps, Northern Italy, 24th May 1915. Within the first days of declaring war against Austro Hungary surprise attacks by Italian Alpini captured the weakly defended Cima Frugnoni, the Pfannspitze and the Porze. Basically there were two means of penetrating the Austrian lines: either across the relatively low 1,360 m (4,462 ft) Plcken Pass or via the 1,636 m (5,367 ft) Kreuzbergsattel pass. The