Appendix 6.

SHOWING APPROXIMATE STRENGTH, CASUALTIES, &C., IN THE PRINCIPAL ENGAGEMENTS DESCRIBED IN VOLUME I.

TALANA HILL, OCTOBER 20th, 1899.

CHAPTER VII.

APPROXIMATE STRENGTH OF TROOPS ENGAGED.

Warrant Horses Guns Arms. Officers N.C.O.s (Riding and and men. Draught). Field. Machine.

Cavalry (includes detachment Natal Carbineers.) 21 497 485 -- 1 Royal Artillery 17 454 428 18 -- Infantry and details (includes mounted infantry companies) 89 3,285 655 -- 4

Total 127 4,236 1,568 18 5

SUMMARY OF BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Ranks. Killed. Wounded. Missing Total (Prisoners). Casualties.

Officers 11 23 9 43 N.C.O.s and men 40 180 237 457

500

APPROXIMATE BOER LOSSES:--Killed, 30; wounded, 100; prisoners, 12 = 142.

AMMUNITION EXPENDED.

Description of Weapons. 15-pr. Field Guns. ·303 L.M. rifles.

Number of rounds 1,237 82,000

RIETFONTEIN, OCTOBER 24th, 1899.