The effects of the Pioneer Column were immense.

The fort was established by the Pioneer Column in 1890, and maintained as a supply base.

In 1890, Rhodes sent a group of settlers, known as the Pioneer Column, into Mashonaland.

The government of Southern Rhodesia re-issued the medal to commemorate the earlier 1890 Pioneer Column, in 1927.

In 1927, the government of Southern Rhodesia issued a medal to commemorate the earlier 1890 Pioneer Column.

The first of these was appointed in 1890, soon after the Pioneer Column's establishment of Fort Salisbury, the capital, on 12 September that year.

A soldier by profession, he served in Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column.

The Pioneer Column, initially comprising about 100 volunteers referred to as "pioneers", was raised by the company during 1890.

On the morning of 13 September 1890, about 10:00, the officers and men of the Pioneer Column paraded atop the kopje before an improvised flagstaff.

The Pioneer Column was then disbanded.