[14] 100 prisoners, 30 male refugees, 300 women, 980 children, 400 black refugees, 30,000 sheep, 6,000 cattle, 300 horses.
[15] Pte. Pruce, E Company.
| Prisoners of War | 53 | |
| Rifles | 4 | |
| Ammunition | 500 | rounds |
| Dynamite | 10 | lbs. |
| Horses | 558 | |
| Ox wagons | 36 | |
| Cape carts | 30 | |
| Cattle | 2052 | |
| Sheep | 15000 | |
| Refugees. | ||
| White men | 3 | |
| White women | 131 | |
| White children | 467 | |
| Black men | 2 | |
| Black women | 7 | |
| Black children | 70 | |
[17] Pte. Boniface, of G Company, was killed there. On the same day Pte. Shorney, of H Company, was mortally wounded at Hex River.
CHAPTER XXIV. TWO DISTRICTS.
A derelict town—The district—Entertainments—British "commandos"—Hertzog's Adjutant—Back to Springfontein—Vlakfontein—The scene of a disaster—Caledon River—Edenburg—Stranded traction engines—Ventershoek—"Commandos" again.
Col. du Moulin moved out of Springfontein on the 21st of July to take over the district which had been assigned to him, and which lay west of the line, and north of the Orange River, round about the town of Philippolis. He had under him about 600 men of the Sussex, nearly all mounted, and a section of the 7th Battery (Capt. Geoghegan and Lieut. Chamier), besides the pom-pom.