We were skilfully guided, for we slipped through a gap between two camps, passing so close that we could hear the murmur of voices and could see the forms of soldiers outlined against their fires.
Colonel Deneys Reitz,
in Commando – A Boer Journal of the Boer War.
Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war’s alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
so he laid down his arms.