Contrary to popular rumor, Colour Sergeant Bourne did not decline the award of a Victoria Cross in favor of an immediate commission. According to the transcript of a 1936 radio interview, Bourne was offered a commission in addition to the Distinguished Conduct Medal, but felt obliged to turn it down. He was the youngest of eight sons from a poor family, and couldn't afford to live as an officer was expected to. He was finally commissioned in 1890, 11 years after Rorke's Drift.

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