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With the defences nearing completion and battle approaching, Chard had several hundred men available to him: Bromhead's B Company, Stevenson's large NNC company, Henderson's NNH troop, and various others ( most of them hospital patients, but ' walking wounded ') drawn from various British and colonial units.

Adendorff also stayed, while the trooper who had ridden in with him galloped on to warn the garrison at Helpmekaar.