Attack on Colonel Rimington’s rearguard by De Wet repulsed. Many prisoners taken.
28.—Van Rensburg and thirteen burghers captured by Colonel Lowry Cole in Wepener district.
DECEMBER 1901.
1.—General Elliot reached Kroonstad with 15 prisoners, 114 waggons, 89 carts, 2470 cattle, and 1280 horses.
3.—Colonel Colenbrander broke up Badenhorst’s commando, and took fifteen prisoners and all the waggons.
4.—Laager surprised at Oshoek (twenty miles from Ermelo) by Spens’ and Rawlinson’s columns. Ninety-three prisoners taken.
7.—Colonel C. Mackenzie, in night march towards Watervaal (Eastern Transvaal), took sixteen prisoners.
Colonel Holland surprised Brand’s laager and took six Boers.
11.—Badenhorst and twenty-two burghers secured by Colonels Colenbrander and Dawkins, near Zandriverspoort.
13.—Brilliant surprise of Boers by General B. Hamilton at Witkraus. Laager broken up. One of Benson’s guns recovered.