Divisional Troops: Three battalions of native levies, one company of Royal Engineers, and three batteries of artillery.
Flying Column—Colonel Evelyn Wood, V.C., C.B.: 1st Battalion 13th (Somerset Light Infantry), 90th (Scottish Rifles), 80th (South Staffords), Buller's Frontier Horse, and two squadrons of mounted infantry.
Cavalry Brigade—Major-General Marshal: King's Dragoon Guards, 17th Lancers, and native mounted troops.
Lines of Communications—Major-General Hugh Clifford, V.C., C.B.: 88th (Connaught Rangers) and details.
Before Sir Garnet Wolseley had time to arrive at headquarters, Lord Chelmsford moved up from Ginghilovo, and defeated the Zulus in a serious engagement at Ulundi. Our losses were trifling, those of the enemy extremely heavy. With this defeat the active opposition of the Zulus ceased, and Sir Garnet Wolseley at once organized a number of flying columns to traverse the country and to effect the capture of the King. This brought the war to a close.
Early in the following year Sir Garnet turned his attention to King Sekukuni, whose stronghold was captured by a portion of the army which had been engaged at Ulundi.
The troops who took part in the campaigns against the Zulus and against Sekukuni were honoured by being awarded the South African War Medal, with a clasp bearing the date "1879" or "1880," as the case may be, and the regiments were authorized to add the words "South Africa" to the other distinctions on their colours. If we except the losses incurred by the 24th Regiment at Isandhlwana and the cutting up of a company of the 80th (South Staffords), the losses in the campaign were not of a very serious nature, as the appended casualty return shows:
Casualties in South Africa, 1877-1879.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| Royal Artillery | 3 | 2 | 68 | 4 |
| Roy. Engineers | 1 | - | 4 | - |
| K. Drag. Gds. | - | - | - | - |
| 17th Lancers | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Buffs | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| 4th King's Own | - | - | - | - |
| 13th Somerset L.I. | 1 | 2 | 8 | 28 |
| 2nd Batt. 21st Roy. Scots F. | - | 4 | 3 | 24 |
| 1st Batt. S. Wales Bdrs. | 16 | - | 404 | 2 |
| 2nd Batt. S. Wales Bdrs. | 5 | - | 187 | 4 |
| 57th Middlesex | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| 58th N'amptons | - | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 3rd Batt. 60th Rifles | 1 | - | 1 | 5 |
| 80th S. Staffs. | 1 | - | 60 | 1 |
| 88th Connaught Rangers | - | - | - | - |
| 90th Scottish R. | 2 | 3 | 15 | 46 |
| 91st Argyll Highlanders | - | - | 1 | 8 |
| 94th Connaught Rangers | - | 2 | 2 | 22 |
| 99th Wilts | 1 | - | 2 | 4 |
| Naval Brigade | 2 | 1 | 8 | 15 |