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| "HMS Active, 1/14/1878, 196 officers, seamen and Marines which included a rocket party. This Brigade saw action at Quintana, 2/7/'78. Originally landed at East London. Re-embarked (possibly) 6/'78
11/19/1878 Numbers: 174 seamen, 42 Royal Marines, 10 officers, 14 West African Kroomen*, 2x12 pounders, 1x10-barrelled Gatling, and 2 rocket tubes. This force landed at Durban, proceeded to the Zululand frontier and garrisoned Fort Pearson and smaller posts on the Lower Tugela river. This Brigade, as part of Pearson's column, crossed into Zululand 1/22/1879 and participated in the defeat of a Zulu force at the Inyezane River. The Brigade had 7 men wounded in this action. Pearson, with HMS Active's Brigade, garrisoned Ekowe fort until 4/3/'79. One officer of this Brigade was attached to Lord Chelmsford's staff.
HMS Tenedos, 12/20/1878 3 officers and 58 men. Crossed the Tugela and built and garrisoned Fort Tenedos.
HMS Shah, 3/7/1879 16 officers and 378 men (in addition to which the captain, Captain Richard Bradshaw, had, upon hearing of reverses in Zululand, embarked all the available infantry <200> from St. Helena with the governor's permission and landed them at Simon's Bay on 2/12/'79). Shah's Brigade was landed at Durban and doubled the Naval strength in and around Natal.
HMS Boadicea, 3/18/'79 10 officers and 218 men.
On 4/2/'79, all three Naval Brigades were combined into one command under Commander John William Brackenbury, although the senior RN officer present was Commodore Frederick William Richards. The combined Brigades fought at Ginginhlovo on 4/3/'79, holding the corners of the British square and suffering 1 officer and 6 men wounded.
Following the relief of Pearson's column at Ekowe fort, the combined Brigades numbered approximately 800 officers and men. Tenedos re-embarked her men on May 8,1879. Active and Shah re-embarked their men on July 21, 1879. Boadicea's men re-embarked on 7/31/1879 (Boadicea would have landed a Brigade even sooner than she did but for Smallpox in her crew. HMS Flora, at Simon's Bay, also had smallpox inboard, which meant she only dispatched 2 of her officers to the front on 4/20/1879).
Other RN assets present: 2 members of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers traveled to the front at their own expense and attached themselves to Active's Brigade. A Royal Marine batallion arrived too late to particpate in any actions.
At the major battles of Ulundi and Isandhlwana, the RN was represented by ONE person at each battle, Lt. A. B. Milne (serving on Chelmsford's staff) being wounded at Ulundi and Signalman William Aynsley, of HMS Active, killed in action at Isandhlwana. The only other RN member who died on active service was Mid. Lewis Cadwallader Coker, of disease, at Ekowe fort.
Primary source for this information _The Royal Navy: A History_ , Sir Wm. Laird Clowes, London, 1903 (volume 7 has the Zulu war information.)" |
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