We have not forgotten you.

It may be days, or it may be weeks, but rest assured that we are coming.' About three in the afternoon of Sunday, December 10th, the force which was intended to clear a path for the army through the lines of Magersfontein moved out upon what proved to be its desperate enterprise.
The 3rd or Highland Brigade included the Black Watch, the Seaforths, the Argyll and Sutherlands, and the Highland Light Infantry.

The Gordons had only arrived in camp that day, and did not advance until next morning.
Besides the infantry, the 9th Lancers, the mounted infantry, and all the artillery moved to the front.

It was raining hard, and the men with one blanket between two soldiers bivouacked upon the cold damp ground, about three miles from the enemy's position.

At one o'clock, without food, and drenched, they moved forwards through the drizzle and the darkness to attack those terrible lines.