ach; Colonel C. E. Beckett, A.A.G., seriously
wounded, right shoulder; Major Frederick Hammersley, D.A.A.G.,
seriously wounded, leg. Brigade Staff.--Colonel John
Sherston,[1] D.S.O., Brigade Major, killed; Captain Frederick
Lock Adam, Aide-de-Camp, seriously wounded, right shoulder. 1st
Battalion Leicestershire Regiment.--Lieutenant B. de W. Weldon,
wounded slightly, hand. 1st Battalion Royal Irish
Fusiliers.--Second Lieutenant A. H. M. Hill, killed; Major W.
P. Davison, wounded; Captain and Adjutant F. H. B. Connor,
wounded (since dead); Captain M. J. W. Pike, wounded;
Lieutenant C. C. Southey, wounded; Second Lieutenant M. B. C.
Carbery, wounded dangerously, face and shoulder; Second
Lieutenant H. C. W. Wortham, wounded severely, both thighs.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers.--Captain George Anthony Weldon, killed;
Captain Maurice Lowndes, wounded dangerously, left leg; Captain
Atherstone Dibley, wounded dangerously, head; Lieutenant
Charles Noel Perreau, wounded; Lieutenant Charles Jervis Genge,
wounded (since dead). 1st Battalion King's Royal
Rifles.--Killed: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Gunning,[2] Captain
M. H. K. Pechell, Lieutenant J. Taylor, Lieutenant R. C.
Barnett, Second Lieutenant N. J. Hambro.--Wounded: Major C. A.
T. Boultbee, upper thigh, dangerously; Captain O. S. W. Nugent,
Captain A. R. M. Stuart-Wortley, Lieutenant F. M. Crum,
Lieutenant R. Johnstone, both thighs, severely; Second
Lieutenant G. H. Martin, thigh and arm, severely. 18th
Hussars.--Wounded: Second Lieutenant H. A. Cape, Second
Lieutenant Albert C. M'Lachlan, Second Lieutenant E. H.
Bayford.

The Boer force engaged in this action was computed at 4000 men, of whom
about 500 were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. Three of their guns
were left dismounted on Talana Hill, but there was no opportunity of
bringing them away.

Our own losses were severe, amounting to 10 officers and 31
non-commissioned officers and men killed, 20 officers and 165
non-commissioned officers and men wounded, and 9 officers and 211
non-commissioned officers and men missing.

Though General Symons was known to be at the point of death, his promotion
was speedily gazetted, and it was some consolation to feel that the
gallant and popular officer lasted long enough to read of the recognition
of his worth by an appreciative country. The followin