Sir Redvers Henry Buller was an English general. He was born in 1839 and died in 1908. He joined the army in 1858 and served in China in 1860, in the Red River Expedition in 1870, in the Ashanti War in 1874 and the Zulu War of 1878 - 1879 during which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Research Redvers Buller