A result of the actor who played the part of Bourne in the film Zulu, a good number of people assumed Frank Bourne to have been middle aged during the time of the Battle of Rorkes Drift although in reality he was simply 24 years old. Just after the conclude of World War I, he lived in old age in Beckenham, South London and he was the last survivor of the battle to pass away at the age of 91 on 8th May 1945, the day the Second World War in Europe came to an end.