King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster

Subject: King''s Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster Sun May 17, 2009 10:18 pm

The King’s Own
The 2nd Battalion 4th (The King’s Own Royal) Regiment left England in mid-December 1878 and marched up through Natal to Zululand by Detachments. The leading two companies were approaching Fort Bengough when they met a galloper bringing news of the disaster at Isandhlwana. They hurried on through the night towards Rorke’s Drift, but the Drift had already been relieved by the time they arrived. The Battalion saw little of the fighting, being engaged in the unrewarding, but necessary, task of guarding lines of communication and key border locations. It did, however, provide a detachment of Mounted Infantry which saw action at the Battle of Inhlobana Hill and Kambula, during the reconnaissance before Ulundi and at the Battle of Ulundi. After the main campaign had ended, on 8 September, three companies of the Battalion were engaged in the attack on the caves on the Intombe River occupied by Manyanyoba. The two men killed and one wounded were the last British casualties of the war. All who served with the 2nd Battalion in the campaign received the medal, and the vast majority also received the bar ‘1879’

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