The officers on parade were Colonel Edwardes, commanding, Major Karri Davis, Major Doveton, Lieutenant Fitzgerald, adjutant, Captain Fowler, commanding F Company, Captain Mullins, B Company, and Captain Codrington, E Company, with their subalterns, Lieutenants Brooking, Normand, Matthias, Pakeman, Kirk, and Huntley, all of whom had been in the fight except Major Doveton, who volunteered for it, but was compelled to stay in camp for field-officer’s duties.  His seniors had the privilege of first choice, and insisted on it, so there was nothing left for him but submission to the inevitable.  As a tribute to the men whose heroic achievement is the brightest episode in this long siege, Sir George White’s soldierly speech will interest readers at home.  Addressing Colonel Edwardes, he said: 

“General Hunter, who planned and carried out the very successful movement of this morning, has reported to me the very efficient help that he received from the men of the Imperial Light Horse as well as the other corps who were employed.  When he told me last night that he was anxious to have a shy at the gun on Gun Hill, there was one thing that I determined on, and that was, that I would give him the best support that I could.  I knew I could trust you to help on account of your knowledge of the business which you have taken in hand in this campaign, and on account of your bravery and your steadiness.  I was also confident of your intelligent individual action in case there might be any difficulty to overcome.  I have come here to express to you my appreciation of the value of the work you did last night, and also to thank you for it.  It will be a great pleasure to me to report to General Sir Redvers Buller, whose name brings confidence wherever it is mentioned, on the work you have done, not only on this occasion, but on every occasion when it has been my good luck to have your assistance.  I have no doubt there is a great deal more hard fighting before us, and my only hope is that you will do as well in the future as in the past, so that I may be able to say at the end of this campaign as I now say in the middle of it, that your behaviour is an honour not only to your own country and colony, but to the whole empire.  Colonel Edwardes, I don’t wish to keep you any longer, owing to the circumstance that ‘Long Tom’ of Bulwaan may interfere in this conference, but once more I thank you one and all.”

Lusty cheers were then given for Sir George White, General Hunter, General Brocklehurst, and Colonel Edwardes.  Sir George White’s appreciation of the heroic achievement is shared by Boer leaders, and in their case it is all the more flattering because expressed while they are smarting under the humiliation of a great loss.  Dr. Davis, with another medical officer and some ambulance men, went up Gun Hill at daybreak under a flag of truce, to look after the wounded men who could not be found when their comrades came down in the dark.  Giving no heed to the Geneva