The Royal Lancasters also lost heavily.
Thorneycroft's had 80 men hit out of 180 engaged.

The Imperial Light Infantry, a raw corps of Rand refugees who were enduring their baptism of fire, lost 130 men.

In officers the losses were particularly heavy, 60 being killed or wounded.

The Boer returns show some 50 killed and 150 wounded, which may not be far from the truth.

Without the shell fire the British losses might not have been much more.
General Buller had lost nearly two thousand men since he had crossed the Tugela, and his purpose was still unfulfilled.