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of us made for it & found the Scots Guards lying in a huge mass there waiting for the other
Guards to secure their points of attack further to the right. Their pipers played The Cock of the North
& other airs but as they were lying flat on their backs the music was also rather flat. Finding the
Guards blocking our advance here our Colonel (Denny) began to extricate his men from the Scots
Guards telling the officers of the 58th (of whom there were a number present) to take them on. Skinner
the senior subaltern collected about a dozen men, left the spur & dashed for hill top marked A from
which the Boers were chasing off as quickly as possible. I went on with this party & he led us up to
the col. The whole place seemed deserted except for one or two Boer ponies. Continuing in the same
direction we came in sight of one or two men concealed among the boulders. We thought there were
only one or two of them & we exchanged shots but as they did not clear out we took up a position &
waited for reinforcements. As it afterwards turned out we were on the flank of about 40 of the enemy
who were opposing the 5th Fusiliers & some of the 58th while crossing the plane & clambering up
the mountainside. The place got pretty hot after a time & a man of the 58th near me said “I’ve been hit”
and he at once gripped hold of the artery of his upper arm to stop the bleeding while I got a tourniquet
(composed of a bandage & a bayonet) on & then bound up the wound with the field dressing each man
carries in his pocket. He had a bullet through the upper part of his arm, but luckily it missed the bone.
More men now came up by dribblets from all sorts of regiments, Guards, Fusiliers & 58th & Skinner
took command directing their fire but still we could not **** see the men among the boulders so as to
get a fair shot at them. To advance directly on them we had to climb over the boulders & they picked
off any man who showed himself. Skinner then got about a dozen men & tried to work round this flank
keeping the slope of the mountain out of sight, but to our astonishment we found fully 200 men of the
5th Fusiliers lying under cover flanking the very fellows we wanted to get out but who were much
stronger than we had originally supposed. As the 5th had their commanding officer with them Skinner
could do nothing so he collected the 58th men & drew off & as I attended to some wounded men I
missed him, & went back over the col to the point marked O where were Capts Copland & Godley
with a number of 58th men firing across the open upland so I told them of the boer position on their
flank. All this time the bullets were flying all over the place coming from every direction.
The Guards were now seen crossing the open upland having come from Gun Hill & Copland &
Godley changing front to the left advanced to where the party of Boers were making the stand.
Worming my way among the boulders here I felt a sharp smack on the head which made a singing in
my ears, but absolutely no pain. It did not take long to whip out the field dressing & a pad of
antiseptic wool soon began to staunch the blood. The boers were now being surrounded & hoisted a
shirt but it was some little time before the firing stopped on both sides. Knight the war correspondent
of the Morning Post was hit after they had the flag of truce up. A large martini bullet passed through
the bone of his upper arm, so I got a bandage from a man & bound it up, then got two bayonets &
formed splints binding them on & his arm to his side with a man’s puttee. He was very plucky indeed
over it. The fight was now practically over in every direction. It was about 7.45. The battle lasted
about 3½ hours.
What I have related is merely what I happened to see myself, which was nothing much. The
whole affair consisted of isolated fights over an area of about 5 square miles. Long
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