Colonel Lloyd of the West Ridings was hit in three places and killed.

Five out of six officers of the New Zealand corps were struck down.

There were no reserves to give a fresh impetus to the attack, and the thin scattered line, behind bullet-spotted stones or anthills, could but hold its own while the sun sank slowly upon a day which will not be forgotten by those who endured it.

The Boers were reinforced in the afternoon, and the pressure became so severe that the field guns were retired with much difficulty.

Many of the infantry had shot away all their cartridges and were helpless.