Gonville Bromhead

After a hard struggle, Wassil succeeded in bringing the sinking man back to the spot where he had left his horse, on the Zulu side of the river.

remounting he plunged again into the stream with his almost exhausted companion and held him up until the opposite bank was gained all the while under a heavy fire from a few zulus who came up just as he plunged into the river for the second time for this brave deed wassail received the victoria cross chapter fifteen chapter sixteen of stories of the victoria cross by frank mundell heroic defence of rorke's drift on the afternoon of the twenty second of january eighteen seventy nine while lieutenant chard was on duty at the buffalo river he was hailed by two men who sheltered to be taken across he at once ferried them over and they told him in a few hurried and breathless sentences that an overwhelming force of zulus had massacred the british troops at isandula and were advancing on rorke's drift ordering the men under his command to return to the camp as soon as possible the lieutenant hurried on before them When he arrived, he found that Lieutenant Bromhead was busily engaged in putting the place in a state of defence.

Rorke's Drift, between Isondula and Natal, had at one time been a mission station, and contained a church and a small house.

The church was now used as a storehouse, and the dwelling had been converted into a hospital.

It was the only reason he was there.

The infantry, B Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 24th, was under a lieutenant named Gonville Bromhead.

His mother must have hated him.

A brave and popular officer who happened to be rather deaf.

And, you know, a station and, you know, again, building a bridge across the river.

Michael Caine, Lieutenant Bromford, is technically in charge there.

of Rorik's Drift.

It's Bromhead, I think, actually.

Bromhead, you're right.

That's because we just had Chelmsford.

So Bromhead is the commanding officer of the 24th foot that is stationed at Rorik's Drift.

And like I said, Chard is just there to build... a bridge over the river.

So it was the 24th regiment of foot and...

Just a little piece of information is that I've met Bromhead's descendant.

No.

Who was a general in the army in the early 90s.

Went to stay with him in Berlin when my dad took me to Berlin to show me around Berlin post the war coming down.

We stayed with

General Bromhead.

And he had a wonderful painting of Rourke's Drift in his house.