The Dublin and Inniskilling Fusiliers headed the roll of honour with only five officers and 40 per cent of the men left standing.

Next to them the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Lancasters had been the hardest hit.

It speaks well for Buller's power of winning and holding the confidence of his men that in the face of repulse after repulse the soldiers still went into battle as steadily as ever under his command.
On March 3rd Buller's force entered Ladysmith in state between the lines of the defenders.

For their heroism the Dublin Fusiliers were put in the van of the procession, and it is told how, as the soldiers who lined the streets saw the five officers and small clump of men, the remains of what had been a strong battalion, realising, for the first time perhaps, what their relief had cost, many sobbed like children.

With cheer after cheer the stream of brave men flowed for hours between banks formed by men as brave.