To Colonials and Yeomanry belongs the honour of the action, which cost the British force seven casualties.

Colonel Crabbe pushed on after the success, and on September 14th he was in touch with Scheepers's commando near Ladismith (not to be confused with the historical town of Natal), and endured and inflicted some losses.

On the 17th a patrol of Grenadier Guards was captured in the north of the Colony, Rebow, the young lieutenant in charge of them, meeting with a soldier's death.
On the same day a more serious engagement occurred near Tarkastad, a place which lies to the east of Cradock, a notorious centre of disaffection in the midland district.

Smuts's commando, some hundreds strong, was marked down in this part, and several forces converged upon it.

One of the outlets, Elands River Poort, was guarded by a single squadron of the 17th Lancers.