Funny you should mention Rorke's Drift.
Even though it's suggested that the men there followed the orders of a officers from the Royal Engineers, it was in fact a Acting Assistant Commissary in the Commissariat and Transport Department who was later credited, rather than the relatively inexperienced Chard or Bromhead, for initiating the defence at Rorke's Drift.
Again the Commissary had 30 years experience in the army, 13 of them in the infantry.
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