by Allan Gordon | Mar 12, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Battles
After the attack on Rorke’s Drift, and an attempted attack by Zulu Impi’s early in February, the German ’settlement’ of Luneberg decided to ‘laager’ their environment. The British sent four companies of the 80th Regiment to help in this regard. In late...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 13, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Birthday, On This Day
Lieutenant-General C.F. Clery was born on 13 February 1838. He took part in the Anglo-Zulu War (1879) and was at Isandlwana. He was with Lord Chelmsford on 22 January 1879, looking for the main Zulu army, and thus missed the massacre. During the South...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 31, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Anniversaries
Samuel Wassall, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at the Battle of Isandlwana, died on 31 January 1927. He was a private in the 80th Regiment of Foot during the Anglo-Zulu War and also saw action in the Battle of Hlobane. During the Battle of...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 25, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Birthday, On This Day
Lieutenant Neville Josiah Aylmer Coghill was born in Dublin on 25 January 1852. On 22 January 1879, after the disaster of the Battle of Isandhlwana, Lieutenant Coghill joined another officer, Lietenant T. Melvill in trying to savethe Queen’s Colour of the...
