Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Sergeant
Minifie of the 7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles was stationed with the
pom-pom and had run out of ammunition but heard that a new case of ammunition
was coming up. He rallied his men and managed to hold on for about another
fifteen minutes. The pom-pom fired twenty or more rounds and then jammed. The Boers
came close to capturing the gun but Minifie and his men managed to run it down
the hill where it ended up in a small ravine. The further advance of the Boers
up the kloof and onto the high ground of the farm Mooifontein was stopped by
the 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles. Colonel C.F. Cox “fought
like a tiger” and had formed a line across the head of the kloof with four of
his picquets.
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