The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War / With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland

by Cecil Francis Romer; Arthur Edward Mainwaring

Lieut.-colonel Sitwell.
Killed at Hart's Hill.

Capt. Maitland.
(Gordon Highlanders, attached)
Killed at Hart's Hill.

Major F. P. English.
Wounded at Venter's Spruit
and Zuikerbosch.

Second Lieut. Dennis.
Wounded at Hart's Hill.
Died of Enteric at Aliwal North.

Casualties at Tugela Heights (continued).

The sun had set, and the light was already failing by the time that the four companies of the left half-battalion had come up, principally on the left of the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Then the signal to charge was given, and the whole line rose up, and with a yell dashed forward. But it was met by a murderous fire. In the gathering darkness the Boer trenches quivered with the rifle-flashes, and the bullets struck out sparks as they hit the rocks. At such a short range the enemy's marksmen could hardly miss, and the line of charging infantry was almost mowed down. The assault was checked, and the attackers flung themselves on the ground and sought what little cover there was.