Note 490 — APPENDIX XIII. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

Hart’s Army List, 1896, p. 270 (a). Sir E. Wood states in the account, “One of the Bravest Deeds I ever saw” (Pearson’s Magazine, February, 1896), already alluded to (ante, p. 337), that Captain Campbell fully recognised the risk to the leading man who should try to enter the Zulu stronghold, and when there was a delay in the execution of the order, he called out, “Then I will do it myself,” and, jumping over a low wall, ran forward in the manner mentioned above.