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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXIV, 15 December 1900, Page 1117

When our troops reached Komati Poort it was found that the Boers had destroyed everything possible over a tremendous area. The devastation included hundreds of waggons, trucks and carriages, together with all kinds of stores —clothing.ammunition, forage and provisions. Thousands of tons were, indeed, still burning. Besides the burning- stores, moreover, hundreds of tons of ammunition, caps, gunpowder, and other explosives, readv-fused shells, from pom-pom to 6-inch. broken rifles, and cannon were found scattered over steres of ground.

During General Buller’s advance from Lydenburg upon the Boer positions between that place and Spitzkop. the Volunteer Company of the Gordon Highlanders was marching in column when a shrapnel shell burst over it, killing three men and wounding sixteen. Notwithstanding this heavy loss, however, the whole company continued to march forward as if nothing had happened.