He was, shortly afterwards, shot in the left arm.

This incapacitated him from serving his gun; but he went and worked a Maxim, with his right arm, till a shot in the face compelled him to have his wounds dressed.
Colonel Carter was wounded in the head, and handed over the command to Colonel Wilkinson, who was himself slightly wounded at the back of the head.

The men fell fast.

The seven pounder and the other Maxim were completely isolated, some distance up the path.

The existence of the stockade was only discovered as the undergrowth was cut away by the rain of bullets.
The officer commanding D company--which had been the rear guard all this time and, consequently, had not suffered--was in hammock with fever, and Colour Sergeant Mackenzie was in command.