The two sons of Herbert Henderson, Mr A. Henderson and Mr I. Henderson, chose to donate their father's Victoria Cross to the National Army Museum to ensure his action remains in the nation's memory. On the 21st May 2007 Lieutenant Henderson's granddaughter escorted the Cross personally from South Africa to hand it over to the National Army Museum. ( The VC is unacompanied by Henderson's British South Africa Company Medal and King George VI Coronation Medal ).

Medal entitlement of Trooper Herbert Stephen Henderson - Bulawayo Field Force, South African Forces

• Victoria Cross
• British South Africa Company Medal ( 1890-97 )
  • inscribed on reverse: "Rhodesia 1896"
• King George VI Coronation Medal ( 1937 )

For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 7 May 1897 ], Matabeleland Rebellion, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 30 March 1896, Trooper Herbert Stephen Henderson, Bulawayo Field Force, South African Forces.

On the morning of the 30th March 1896, just before light, Captain Macfarlane's party was surprised by the natives. Troopers Celliers and Henderson, who formed part of the advanced guard, were cut off from the main body, and Celliers was shot through the knee. His horse also was badly wounded and eventually died.

Henderson then placed Celliers on his own horse, and made the best of his way to Bulawayo, The country between Campbell's Store, where they were cut off, and Bulawayo, a distance of about thirty-five miles, was full of natives fully armed, and they had, therefore, to proceed principally by night, hiding in the bush in the daytime.

Celliers, who was weak from loss of blood, and in great agony, asked Henderson to leave him, but he would not, and brought him in, after passing two days and one night in the veldt without food.

Herbert Henderson was invested with his Victoria Cross by the Governor of Cape Colony, Lord Milner, in Bulawayo on the 14th November 1897.

Herbert Henderson died on the 10th August 1942, aged 72, at his home in Bulawayo, Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) and was buried in the city's Centenary Park Cemetery, also known as Bulawayo Town Cemetery.