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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