Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "What happened to Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne Rorkes Drift" video.

Bourne's moustache and sideburns were called Burnsides, named after the US army general of the same name who had fought for the North in the civil war. When men stopped growing the moustache but kept the rest then the name was reversed and they became sideburns. Stanley Baker owned Chard's original Victoria Cross, though he did not know that at the time. And, of course, he should have worn a blue coat being an engineer. At the end of the film Michael Caine, playing Bromhead, tells Baker's Chard that he had not fought a battle before. This was not true as he already had combat experience.
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