rostall's

Updated: May 24, 2025

Yet in the two companies there were only eight casualties! An almost parallel case was furnished by Rostall's orchard at Modder River, which was held by the Boers, and swept for hours by so fearful a fire of shrapnel that the peach-trees were cut down in every direction and scarcely a square foot behind the trenches unmarked by the leaden hail.

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