Many were taken prisoners in their slumber by the enemy who gleaned behind them.

Units broke into small straggling bodies, and it was a sorry and bedraggled force which about ten o'clock came wandering into Molteno.

The place of honour in the rear was kept throughout by the Irish Rifles, who preserved some military formation to the end.

Our losses in killed and wounded were not severe--military honour would have been less sore had they been more so.

Twenty-six killed, sixty-eight wounded--that is all.