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Updated: May 11, 2025
Captain Roupell who commanded the advance became aware, from the numerous tracks and footprints, that the enemy must be in force in the neighbourhood, and advanced cautiously. He did not observe the stockade, however, so well was it hidden among the bushes. Just as they reached the farther end of it, a tremendous fire was opened.
Captain Roupell was again dangerously wounded, and Lieutenant O'Malley so severely wounded that he was forced to discontinue fire. Lieutenant Edwardes, although he was hit early in the action, stuck to his gun. The gun team were all lying round, either killed or wounded, and he ran home the shells with a stick. He was, shortly afterwards, shot in the left arm.
Captain Roupell was wounded, and many of the men also killed or wounded. For a moment the troops were paralysed by the hail of lead. Then they replied with their rifles, and two Maxims and an eleven pounder were got to work. Captain Roupell, in spite of his wound, worked one of the Maxims, Lieutenant O'Malley the other, and Lieutenant Edwardes the gun.
The engineers were employed in making a road, to take the stores and troops across the Prah. Three of the wounded officers Captain Roupell, Lieutenants Edwardes and O'Malley were invalided, and left for home in a convoy with over a hundred wounded.
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