Great credit must also be given to A and B companies of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, who were actually the first over the Boer position.

The cessation of the artillery fire was admirably timed.

It was sustained up to the last possible instant.

'As it was,' said the captain of the leading company, 'a 94-pound shell burst about thirty yards in front of the right of our lot.

The smell of the lyddite was awful.' A pom-pom and twenty prisoners, including the commander of the police, were the trophies of the day.