party to approach and enter it, having discovered that the defenders had prevailed. Norris-Newman gathered news of the defence before riding to the telegraph office at Pietermaritzburg, from where he filed a report to The Standard. It reached Cape Town by telegraph from where it had to be carried by ship to Cape Verde where a telegraph line connected to London. The story, the first news of the defeat, appeared in the British press twenty days after the battle. The report established Norris-Newman's name in journalism. The report, including a carefully compiled casualty list, was printed locally in an extra edition of the Natal Times on 24 January, the same day he arrived at Pietermaritzburg. Following the defeat the British press dispatched their best correspondents to Natal, including Melton Prior, Charles Edwin Fripp and Archibald Forbes. The Standard sent F.R. MacKenzie to assist Norris-Newman. Norris-Newman and Forbes returned to Isandhlwana on 20 March with a British party sent to bury some of the dead. Norris-Newman also accompanied the relief expedition for the Siege of Eshowe. During the expedition he was present at the 2 April Battle of Gingindlovu. At one point in that battle he judged the fighting so desperate that he grabbed a rifle and helped, shooting at least one Zulu. After the battle he and a friend, a wagon driver named Palmer, went out into the field and found a group of three dead Zulu that they thought they had killed. They took from them items of their dress and weapons as trophies. Norris-Newman was the first man to enter Eshowe upon its relief, racing the correspondent of the Argus for the honour and beating him by five minutes. Norris-Newman was present in the decisive final British victory of the war, the 4 July Battle of Ulundi. Norris-Newman's account of the Anglo-Zulu War, On Campaign with the British Army in the Zulu War of 1879, was published in 1880 by W. H. Allen & Co. Zulu War historian Donald R. Morris regarded the book as "brisk and accurate" for the parts of the war that Norris-Newman witnessed but otherwise liable to include hearsay. Norris-Newman featured in the 1979 film Zulu Dawn, portrayed by English actor Ronald Lacey as an "acidic" commentator on the invasion. Later career in Africa Norris-Newman was still in Southern Africa when the First Boer War broke out late in 1880 between the British and