Rhodes's
statement at a De Beers meeting, held shortly after the siege, " I take
this opportunity of placing it on record that seventy citizen soldiers
of Kimberley went to take the position, and out of that number there
were only twenty who were able to creep away alive or unwounded after
nightfall."
The
29th of November will long be remembered as the saddest day during the
siege, when the brave men killed in this action were buried with
military and civic honors.
In order to meet the wants of the women and children whose breadwinners had fallen in battle, a fund was started; to this De
