Colonel Julian Byng camped at Fannie’s Home on a bluff overlooking the Liebenberg’s Vlei river early in February 1902. Sending Lieutenant Colonel Garatt to Armstrong Drift on the Liebenberg’s Vlei river, they came across the rear-guard of a Boer force under Commandant Walter Mears on 3^rd February. Mears had been ordered to bring the guns, captured by de Wet at Groenkop on Christmas Day, across the blockhouse line between Lindley and Bethlehem. Garatt’s men included the 7^th New Zealand Mounted Rifles who had “a hard gallop and a running fight of some miles” in succeeding to rout the Boer rearguard and recapture the lost guns. Major Bauchop, their commander, received a personal telegram from Lord Kitchener and Garratt “gratified the New Zealanders by assuring them that it was one of the best mounted charges he had ever seen.”