The story was, that the party were surrounded at short range when he left; for, had they left their wounded and followed him, they might have saved themselves.

Next morning their bodies were found.

In every case they had been wounded by bullets, before the Pathans came up and gashed them; which showed that they had fought till the last man dropped.
Lisle was not one of those who returned to camp and, in the confusion that occurred as the result of the late arrival of the troops, his absence was not discovered until the next morning.

On enquiries being made, it was found that he was last seen high up in the mountains.

He had been sent down, with eight men, to request the guns to direct their fire against the enemy, who were pressing the regiment during the retreat; but as he had not arrived at the guns, a strong party was at once sent out, to search for his body and those of the men with him.
Lisle had, in fact, pushed down halfway to the spot where the guns were placed, and had dismounted at the top of a nullah; when a large party of the enemy opened fire upon him.