To the east of Belmont, about fifteen miles off, he came on a detachment of the enemy with a gun.

To make out the Boer position the mounted infantry galloped round one of their flanks, and in doing so passed close to a kopje which was occupied by sharpshooters.
A deadly fire crackled suddenly out from among the boulders.

Of six men hit four were officers, showing how cool were the marksmen and how dangerous those dress distinctions which will probably disappear hence forwards upon the field of battle.

Colonel Keith-Falconer of the Northumberlands, who had earned distinction in the Soudan, was shot dead.

So was Wood of the North Lancashires.