'Bronkhorst Spruit - Battlefield', 1880 (c)

Photograph, South Africa, 1880 (c).

The bones of cattle on the Bronkhorstspruit battlefield, Transvaal War (1880-1881).

Headquarters, 'A' and 'F' Companies of the 94th Regiment, with commissariat and medical personnel, 269 strong including three women and three children, were ambushed by Boer forces while en route to Pretoria on 20 December 1880. 90 were wounded and 65 were killed or subsequently died of their wounds, and the British were forced to surrender.

From an album of photographs compiled by George Froom, 94th Regiment of Foot.