26 JUNE 1900 - LELIEFONTEIN (SENEKAL)

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“On 24 June Gen Clemens ordered Lt-Col Grenfell to move with some 800 mounted men on 25 June so as to take a Boer laager on the farm Leliefontein, some 15 miles north-west of Senekal. At dawn on the 26th, instead of being in a position to attack, he was surprised by a force of Boers.

 

They had five guns to Grenfell’s two, but he was extricated from a very difficult position by the arrival of reinforcements from Senekal.

 

British casualties were 2 killed, 13 wounded and 20 missing.” Times History, Vol IV p301.
171. QSA, 4 clasps CC, Webster, Witt, Belf: 
317 Tpr. A.B. Webster. Brabant’s Horse