The ordeal was a very severe one.

The Yorkshires were swung round wide upon the right, but the rest of the brigade, the Welsh Regiment leading, made a frontal attack upon the ridge.

It was done coolly and deliberately, the men taking advantage of every possible cover.

Boers could be seen leaving their position in small bodies as the crackling, swaying line of the British surged ever higher upon the hillside.

At last, with a cheer, the Welshmen with their Kent and Essex comrades swept over the crest into the ranks of that cosmopolitan crew of sturdy adventurers who are known as the Johannesburg Police.