All morning the firing was very heavy, many of the bullets coming right over the hill and dropping near the town.

Our men kept very still, only firing when they saw their mark.
Three of them were killed, thirteen wounded.

Before noon a field battery came up to support the battalion, and against that terrifying shrapnel of ours the Boers attempted no further advance.

In the same way they came creeping up against Observation Hill (a barren rocky ridge on the north-west of the town), hiding by any tree or stone, but were completely checked by four companies of Rifles, with two guns and the dismounted Lancers.

They say the Boer loss was very heavy at both places.