About
For his heroism in an Anglo-Zulu War initiative known as the Battle of Rorke's Drift, Bromhead was awarded the British Army's prestigious Victoria Cross.
Before Fame
After attending England's Magnus Grammar School and subsequently becoming a military lieutenant, he served in the Ninth Cape Frontier War.
Trivia
Following his service in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, he contracted typhoid fever and died in India at the age of forty-five.
Family Life
The youngest son of Judith Bromhead and Major Sir Edmund de Gonville Bromhead, he was born in France and raised primarily in England.
Associated With
Renowned screen actor Michael Caine rose to prominence after unflatteringly portraying Bromhead in the 1960s movie Zulu.
