T ATTACK
BY THE SCOTS AND GRENADIER GUARDS.

Drawing by Frank Dodd, R.I.]

During the heat of the fray Colonel Crabbe, commanding the Grenadier
Guards, became detached from his regiment. He was instantly surrounded
by Boers, and being wounded, might probably have been killed had not a
private suddenly rushed to the rescue. The plucky fellow shot two of the
enemy, silenced a third with his bayonet, and finally, amid a shower of
bullets, carried off the Colonel to the shelter of an ambulance waggon.
Colonel Crabbe sustained injuries to wrist and thigh, but was not
dangerously wounded.

A curious experience befell the Hon. George Peel, who was trying to
reach Kimberley, where his sister, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, was
imprisoned. Roaming about after the battle of Belmont, he came by
accident on a Boer camp. A Dutchman promptly emerged, and when he was
preparing to meet a grim fate, deciding that all hope was lost, he found
himself accosted and handed a Bible. He was in the very act of
congratulating himself on his lucky escape when on the scene came two
grenadiers, who seeing his battered condition and his Bible, mistook him
for a Boer spy and carried him off as a prize. Fortunately he was
recognised by a member of Lord Methuen's camp and liberated.

Very interesting are the following official particulars given by the
General Officer Commanding the 9th Brigade to the Chief Staff Officer of
the 1st Division:--

"BELMONT, _Nov. 23, 1899_.

"SIR,--I have the honour to submit the following report of the
part taken by the brigade under my command in the action which
took place to-day. The rendezvous was left at 3.7 A.M. in the
following formation: Northumberland Fusiliers, in column of
companies, on the left, directing, and fifty paces from them
moved the Northamptonshire Regiment in similar formation, and
parallel to them. In rear of both these battalions was the 2nd
Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and two companies
Munster Fusiliers." (Having described the operations which
ended in the occupation of a ridge south of Table Mountain,
Major-General Featherstonhaugh continues:) "This party of the
enemy was finally dislodged at the point of the bayonet, and
'independent fire' poured into them at a distance of fifty
yards, when a white flag was hoisted by the party. On our men
ceasing fire,