Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Victoria Cross Before 1879 1
Chapter 2 The Rise of the Zulu Nation 4
Chapter 3 The Disaster at iSandlwana 9
Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill VC 14
Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill VC 17
Private Samuel Wassail VC 20
Chapter 4 The Defence of Rorke's Drift 24
Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard VC 55
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead VC 68
Corporal William Wilson Allan VC 75
Private Frederick Hitch VC 77
Private Alfred Henry Hook VC 79
Private Robert Jones VC 81
Private William Jones VC 83
Private John Williams (Fielding) VC 84
Surgeon James Henry Reynolds VC 86
Commissary James Langley Dalton VC 90
Corporal Frederick Schiess VC 94
Chapter 5 The iNtombe River Massacre 99
Sergeant Anthony Clarke Booth VC 102
Chapter 6 Hiobane Mountain 111
Lieutenant-Colonel Redvers Henry Buller VC 117
Major William Knox Leet VC 122
Lieutenant Henry Lysons VC 128
Private Edmund John Fowler VC 130
Chapter 7 Khambula Hill 139
Lieutenant Edward Stevenson Browne VC 145
Chapter 8 Operations at Ulundi 150
Captain William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC 158
Captain Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy VC 165
Sergeant Edmund Joseph O'Toole VC 169
Appendix 173
Research Sources and Further Reading 176
Index 181