of
Captain Robertson under a flag of truce, to collect and bring in the
dead. It was then ascertained that Kimberley had lost twenty-two killed
and twenty-eight wounded, one of the latter being mortally hurt.
In
these encounters, as in all other occasions of their service during the
siege, the ambulance corps was notably efficient, and the Kimberley
doctors, as a body, did excellent service, both in the field under fire
and in the hospitals. Particular mention may fitly be made of Drs.
Heberden and Ortlepp, who were attached to the mounted forces, and of
Drs. Ashe, Mathias, McKenzie, and Watkins.
The fierceness of this engagement may be judged from
