This figure includes those under the command of Erasmus, who made halfhearted demonstrations against the British flank.

If the shirkers be eliminated, it is probable that there were not more than a thousand actual combatants upon the hill.

Of this number about fifty were killed and a hundred wounded.

The British loss at Talana Hill itself was 41 killed and 180 wounded, but among the killed were many whom the army could ill spare.

The gallant but optimistic Symons, Gunning of the Rifles, Sherston, Connor, Hambro, and many other brave men died that day.