Colonel Codrington of the Coldstreams was wounded early, fought through the action, and came back in the evening on a Maxim gun.

Lord Winchester of the same battalion was killed, after injudiciously but heroically exposing himself all day.

The Black Watch alone had lost nineteen officers and over three hundred men killed and wounded, a catastrophe which can only be matched in all the bloody and glorious annals of that splendid regiment by their slaughter at Ticonderoga in 1757, when no fewer than five hundred fell before Montcalm's muskets.

Never has Scotland had a more grievous day than this of Magersfontein.

She has always given her best blood with lavish generosity for the Empire, but it may be doubted if any single battle has ever put so many families of high and low into mourning from the Tweed to the Caithness shore.