Horace Smith-Dorrien
Also known as: Smith Doreen · Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, GCB, GCMG, DSO was a British Army General.
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Horace Smith-Dorrien: Anglo-Zulu War
On 1 November 1878, he was posted to South Africa where he was employed as a Transport Officer. He was present at the Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War on 22 January 1879, serving with the British invasion force as a transport officer for a detachment of Royal Artillery.
Horace Smith-Dorrien: Isandlwana, 1879
One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War.