commenced to aim at them, and for the moment it seemed as though the
work of removing the guns could not be persisted in. Twenty-five horses
were killed, but the chargers of several officers were next utilised,
and the officers themselves, some of them wounded, walked or crawled off
the field in order that the valuable weapons should be borne off in
safety. A driver was also heroically self-abnegating. Though shot
through the lungs, he refused to leave his post, and valiantly drove his
gun out of action.

The list of killed and wounded was a grievously long one:--

Killed: Staff--Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Northcote.[7] 2nd
Coldstream Guards--Lieutenant-Colonel H. Stopford,[8] Captain
S. Earle. Wounded: Field Artillery--Major W. Lindsay, hand;
Captain Farrell, foot; Lieutenant Dunlop, shoulder; Lieutenant
Furse. 3rd Grenadier Guards--Major Count Gleichen, severely;
Lieutenant Hon. E. Lygon, slight. 2nd Coldstream
Guards--Lieutenant Viscount Acheson. Royal Army Medical
Corps--Captain Gurse Moore. Killed: 2nd Yorkshire Light
Infantry, Second Lieutenant L. W. Long. Wounded:
Staff--Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, slightly; bullet flesh
wound in thigh. Royal Engineers--Captain N. G. Von Hugel,
slightly. 3rd Grenadier Guards--Second Lieutenant A. H.
Travers, slightly. 1st Scots Guards--Lieutenant H. C. Elwes,
seriously; Second Lieutenant W. J. M. Hill, 1st Loyal North
Lancashire--Lieutenant R. B. Flint, slightly. 2nd Yorkshire
Light Infantry--Major H. Earle, Major G. F. Ottley, Lieutenant
R. M. D. Fox. 1st Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders--Lieutenant
H. B. F. Baker-Carr, Second Lieutenant W. G. Neilson.

AFTER THE FIGHT

All night long energetic members of the Ambulance Corps picked their way
over the battlefield collecting the wounded and succouring them. Not
only had our unhappy sufferers to be attended to, but many of the enemy,
of whom there was an unusual number. So anxious had been the Dutchmen to
clear out before our troops could reach them in the morning, that,
contrary to custom, they had left wounded, doctors, and ambulance train
behind them.

After the uproar of the conflict and the night of merciful repose were
over, the troops were able to inspect their new quarters. The pretty
little village presented a strange sight--a study in contrasts for the
meditative mind. A pastoral calm reigned