Major Brodiewald, Brigade Major to the Natal Volunteers under Colonel Royston, was sitting on the rocks watching Buller's shells like myself.

A shrapnel bullet struck him in the mouth and passed out at the back of his neck.

He was carried down the hill, his blood dripping upon the stones along the track.

In the afternoon one of the bluejackets was also seriously wounded by shrapnel.

The bombardment was heavy all day, the Bulwan gun firing right over Convent Hill and plunging shells into the Naval Camp, the Leicesters, and the open ground near Headquarters.