Having reorganized the administration there and reduced the powerful King, Sekhukhune, to submission, he returned home in May 1880 and was appointed Quartermaster-General to the Forces on 1 July 1880.
Having reorganized the administration there and reduced the powerful King, Sekhukhune, to submission, he returned to London in May 1880. Finally as if to signify a meteoric rise in Imperial esteem he was appointed Quartermaster-General to the Forces on 1 July 1880.