Footnote 205: The fence which runs north-west from Moss Drift.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 206: See map No. [13(a)].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 207: See Footnote at the end of the chapter.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 208: See map No. [13 (a)].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 209: See map [No. 13 (a)].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 210: This order was despatched to Lieutenant-Colonel Macbean at 7.40 a.m.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 211: The distance is verified by Capt. W. E. Gordon, V.C., Gordon Highlanders, who, while in the leading line, fell wounded at a spot which many months later he was able to identify. Thence he paced to the Boer trench. Lt. H. E. M. Douglas, R.A.M.C., crept forward to inject morphia into various wounded officers and men at this very spot. He was awarded the V.C. for this act. This decoration was given to Capt. E. B. Towse, Gordon Highlanders, and Corporal J. Shaul, H.L.I., for gallantry during the action.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 212: During the battle the 18th battery fired 940 rounds, the 62nd about 1,000 rounds, the 75th, 721, G. battery R.H.A., 1,179, and the Naval 4·7-in. 73.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 213: See maps Nos. [3], [4], [15], and [freehand sketch].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 214: The 3rd battery of this brigade division had not yet arrived, having been shipwrecked on its voyage out.[Back to Main Text]