Child (Daphne) Editor:
ZULU WAR JOURNAL
of Colonel Henry Harford, C.B
Published: Pietermaritzburg, 1978
Stock Number: #3109/4
Price: R750
Approximately:
88 pages, 8vo (217 x 150 mm), maps on endpapers, 20 plates, black cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector
'Colonel Henry Harford served as a young man in the Zulu War of 1879, and was a staff officer to Commandant Lonsdale of the 3rd Regiment, Natal Native Contingent.'In his journal Harford, who was with Lord Chelmsford's column, tells of the initial skirmishes of the war and of the disaster at Isandlwana and the defence of Rorke's Drift. He describes the recovery at Fugitives' Drift of the Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment.' Editor's Note.