Ron Lock has spent much of his life in Africa, including thirteen years in Kenya and Tanganyika. He served in the Mounted Troop of the Royal Military Police and the Rift Valley Troop of the Kenya Police. He is the author of Blood on the Painted Mountain - Hlobane and Kambula, 1879 and numerous articles on military history which have been published in the UK and USA. He is also a registered guide to Anglo-Zulu and Boer War battlefields.