e this
missing party would return. But the belief was vain. In a few days it
was discovered that they were made prisoners and had been removed to
Pretoria. The following is a list of the gallant officers who were so
unluckily captured:--

Colonel Moeller, 18th Hussars; Major Greville, 18th Hussars;
Captain Pollok, 18th Hussars; Captain Lonsdale, 2nd Battalion
Dublin Fusiliers; Lieutenant Le Mesurier, 2nd Battalion Dublin
Fusiliers; Lieutenant Garvice, 2nd Battalion Dublin Fusiliers;
Lieutenant Grimshaw, 2nd Battalion Dublin Fusiliers; Lieutenant
Majendie, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps; Lieutenant
Shore, Army Veterinary Department, attached to 18th Hussars.

An official account of the circumstances which led to the capture was
supplied by Captain Hardy, R.A.M.C., who said: "After the battle, three
squadrons of the 18th Hussars, with one Maxim, a company of the Dublin
Fusiliers, a section of the 60th Rifles and Mounted Infantry, Colonel
Moeller commanding, kept under cover of the ridge to the north of the
camp, and at 6.30 moved down the Sand Spruit. On reaching the open the
force was shelled by the enemy, but there were no casualties.

"Colonel Moeller took his men round Talana Hill in a south-easterly
direction, crossed the Vant's Drift road, captured several Boers, and
saw the Boer ambulances retiring. Colonel Moeller, with the B Squadron
of the Hussars, a Maxim, and mounted infantry, crossed the
Dundee-Vryheid railway, and got near a big force of the enemy, who
opened a hot fire, and Lieutenant M'Lachlan was hit.

"The cavalry retired across Vant's Drift, 1500 Boers following. Colonel
Moeller held the ridge for some time, but the enemy enveloping his
right, he ordered the force to fall back across the Spruit. The Maxim
got fixed in a donga (water-hole). Lieutenant Cape was wounded, three of
his detachment were killed, and the horses of Major Greville and Captain
Pollok were shot.

"The force re-formed on a ridge north of the Sand Spruit, and held it
for a short time. While Captain Hardy was attending to Lieutenant Crum,
who was wounded, Colonel Moeller retired his force into a defile,
apparently with the intention of returning to camp round the Impati
Mountain, and was not seen afterwards."

The following list of casualties shows how hardly the glory of victories
may be earned:--

Divisional Staff.--General Sir William Penn Symons, mortally
wounded in stom