Many of the men were struck three and four times.

There was no surrender, and the extermination of B company added another laurel, even at a moment of defeat, to the regiment whose reputation was so grimly upheld.

The Boer victors walked in among the litter of stricken men and horses.

'Practically all of them were dressed in khaki and had the water-bottles and haversacks of our soldiers.

One of them snatched a bayonet from a dead man, and was about to despatch one of our wounded when he was stopped in the nick of time by a man in a black suit, who, I afterwards heard, was De la Rey himself...The feature of the action was the incomparable heroism of our dear old Colonel Wools-Sampson.' So wrote a survivor of B company, himself shot through the body.