Boer War: British soldiers tending wounded Boers in an early stage of the Battle of Spion Kop. Watercolour by H.M. Paget, 1900.

"After the passage of the Tugela at Potgieter's Drift, when our mounted infantry and cavalry caught the Boers by surprise, and drove them back, some of our men went out to search the ground for wounded. They found 10 Boers dead or dying, and eight badly wounded. The soldiers ran to these last, covering them with blankets or mackintoshes, propping their heads with pillows and giving them water from their bottles. It was difficult to believe that these same men had been trying to kill each other a few minutes before"--The graphic. loc. cit.