graspan

Updated: May 14, 2025

At the battle of Graspan a number of Boer artillerymen were found with the Geneva Red Cross on their arms, and it seems pretty clear that these men had deliberately slipped the badge on the sleeves in order to avoid capture. They were, of course, at once secured and treated as ordinary prisoners of war.

Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett - With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train

Even from this skeleton outline it is easy to see that the wounded in a battle like Belmont and Graspan are all over the place, though the motionless forms grow more numerous the nearer we get to the enemy's lines. Now, strictly speaking, stretcher-bearers ought not to move forward to the aid of the wounded during the battle.

Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett - With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train