Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I whakatairangahia a Thesiger ki te rangatira nui i te Poutu-te-rangi i te Poutu-te-rangi i te Poutu-te-rangi i te Poutu-te-rangi i te Hui-tanguru 1878, a i te Oketopa i whai i tona papa hei 2nd Baron Chelmsford. I kawea mai e ia te Pakanga Tuawhenua o Cape Tuatahi
I whakaotihia ia i te Hōngongoi 1878, a i whakawhiwhia ia hei Knight Commander o te Order of the Bath i te Noema 1878. Nā ōna wheako i te whawhai ki te iwi Xhosa i whakaiti ai te whakaaro o ngā hōia o Awherika ki te whawhai, nāna i whai hua kino i te wā o te Pakanga o Ingarangi-Zulu.