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before you will get this the newspapers will be full of it. The Grenadiers seem to have had some
very hard fighting & had terrible loss. A number of the 58th were with them but we had drummed it
into the men that they must keep widely extended so that they kept about 6 or 10 paces apart while the
Grenadiers were crowded to 1 pace apart & suffered accordingly. Their fearless advance must have
astonished the Boers very much.
The Boers themselves must be divided into two classes, those who bolted directly they saw our
determined advance & those who fought with a courage & valour which won great admiration on our
part. They don’t quite understand civilized warfare & some hold up a flag of truce while they keep up
their fire.
But I will entirely leave the account of the battle as a whole to those who have been able to form
a better idea of it than it was possible for an eye witness.
Copland sent me back to camp & on the way down the mountain I came on several Boers who
had been bandaged up by our men & they did not know what to make of the meat lozenges I gave
them. One of them said “danker” the others kept stolid silence. At the foot of the hills I found Ripley
who put me on the General’s horse, for unfortunately our Brigadier Fetherstonhaugh had been
wounded so I rode on to the railway line where the Sappers with an armoured train were busily
repairing the line. The engine driver with a bucket of water & a lump of cotton waste gave me a clean
down & a doctor with them dressed my scalp and then I went on to camp, to find we had only 14 men
wounded & 3 officers which is a good proportion considering we were all dressed just like the men.
Reproduced by courtesy of the Museum of the Northamptonshire Regiment, Northampton.
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