This was the heroic defence of a convoy by the 14th Company of Irish Imperial Yeomanry.

The convoy was taking food to Griquatown, on the Kimberley side of the seat of war.

The town had been long invested by Conroy, and the inhabitants were in such straits that it was highly necessary to relieve them.

To this end a convoy, two miles long, was despatched under Major Humby of the Irish Yeomanry.

The escort consisted of seventy-five Northumberland Fusiliers, twenty-four local troops, and 100 of the 74th Irish Yeomanry.