The unit was deployed in several operations and campaigns: the 4th Frontier War (1811–1812), the 5th Frontier War (1818–1819), the 6th Frontier War (1834–1835), the siege of Durban (1842), the 7th Frontier War (1846–1847), the 8th Frontier War (1850–1853), and the Basuto War 1850–1852.
He was about 20 years old, and a Private in the 94th Regiment of Foot (later The Connaught Rangers), British Army during the Basuto War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
Impregnable on three sides and accessible only on the fourth, the 1,500-foot-high mountain was the site of a war in southern Basutoland (modern Lesotho) in1879 that preceded the Gun War, also known as the Basuto War.
The son of an 1820 settler, he fought on the side of the Orange Free State in the Basuto War, and later became a general trader, wool-buyer and stock-breeder at Dordrecht.
Flawn was 21 years old, and a private in the 94th Regiment of Foot (later the Connaught Rangers), British Army during the Basuto War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
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