Editing Battle of Rorke's Drift (section)

===Victoria Cross===

'''Source:'''<ref>Whybra 2004, pp. 71–72.</ref>
[[File:Victoria Cross Winners- Pre 1914. Q80569.jpg|thumb|Picture taken about 1884 at the site of the battle, allegedly showing VC recipients including Bromhead and Reynolds. Man in rear wearing Foreign Service helmet is not Corporal Schiess but [[Alan Richard Hill]] V.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.1879zuluwar.com/t1014-cpl-christian-ferdinand-schiess|title=Cpl. Christian Ferdinand Schiess|website=www.1879zuluwar.com}}</ref>]]
* Lieutenant [[John Rouse Merriott Chard]], 5th Field Coy, [[Royal Engineers]]
* Lieutenant [[Gonville Bromhead]]; B Coy, [[South Wales Borderers|24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot]] (2nd/24th Foot)
* Corporal [[William Wilson Allen]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Private [[Frederick Hitch]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Private [[Alfred Henry Hook]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Private [[Robert Jones (VC)|Robert Jones]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Private [[William Jones (VC)|William Jones]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Private [[John Williams (VC)|John Williams]]; B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot
* Surgeon-Major [[James Henry Reynolds]]; [[Royal Army Medical Corps|Army Medical Department]]
* Acting Assistant Commissary [[James Langley Dalton]]; [[Commissariat and Transport Department]]
* Corporal [[Christian Ferdinand Schiess]]; 2nd/3rd Natal Native Contingent

In 1879, there was no provision for the posthumous granting of the Victoria Cross. Private Joseph Williams, B Coy, 2nd/24th Foot, was killed during the fight in the hospital and was [[mentioned in despatches]] that "had he lived he would have been recommended for the Victoria Cross."<ref>Snook 2006, pp. 96–99.</ref>
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File:Image-John Rouse Merriott Chard2.JPG|[[John Chard]], VC, as a [[lieutenant-colonel]]
File:Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead.jpg|Lieutenant [[Gonville Bromhead]],VC
File:Défense de Rorke's Drift.jpg|Corporal William Allen,VC [right foreground] handing cartridges to Lt Chard
File:VCFrederickHitch.jpg|Private Frederick Hitch, VC
File:Photo of Albert Henry Hook VC.jpg|Private Henry Alfred Hook, VC
File:VCRobertJones.jpg|Private Robert Jones, VC
File:VCWilliamJones.jpg|Private William Jones, VC
File:Victoria Cross Winners- Pre 1914 Q88647.jpg|Private John Williams,VC
File:VCJamesHenryReynolds.jpg|Surgeon-Major James Henry Reynolds,VC
File:Defense of Roark's Drift by Alphonse de Neuville - Detail - Possibly Ferdinand Schiess.jpg|Corporal Ferdinand Schiess, VC
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