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disaster of Isandhlwana, being recommended for a V.C. for his gallantry in
rendering aid to others after that event. Subsequently, having spent two months
in hospital at Ladysmith with enteric, and being sentenced by his doctors to
immediate dispatch to England, he broke out of hospital, surreptitiously, rejoined
Lord Chelmsford, was forgiven that crime, and served still with the transport in the
advance which culminated in the Zulus' decisive defeat at Ulundi.
Promoted Captain in August, 1882, he was ordered to Egypt with the 2nd Bn.
Sherwood Foresters (the old 95th), and did excellent work under Sir Evelyn Wood,
first as Assistant Chief of Police at Alexandria, and later in daring reconnaissances
outside that city with a small section of some thirty scratch Mounted Infantrymen.
SIR HORACE SMITH-DORRIEN.
Two years later he joined the Egyptian Army, then under the command of
Sir Evelyn, and as his first duty raised a battalion of Turks. A little later in the
year he was given an acting appointment on the Headquarters Staff, corresponding
to that of Q.M.G. in the British Service. In May, 1885, he took a holiday to the
front as an Adjutant of mounted infantry and saw service under General Graham
at Tamai and Suakin. In December he again slipped away from office, ostensibly
on inspection duty, and was appointed by General Grenfell Staff Officer to the
