Snipers On The Veldt
It's 1901 and Boer guerillas are everywhere, out on the veldt is a small patrol of Imperial Yeomanry. Just brought in from Great Britain and full of derring do, these warriors of Empire are out searching for an elusive enemy, watching up on a kopje a group of Boer snipers are waiting.
Just a little closer, and.......shots are fired! Whether it was excitement, fear or a bit of both, but it seems the Boers fired too early, and they all missed their mark, the Yeomanry at first don't know what to do, but they soon dismount and take cover.
There is a brisk too and fro, bullets ricochet off rocks and whizz past ears, each side know approximately where the enemy is but not exactly as men duck and change position, just the odd sighting and a close shave.
The Yeomanry commander shows his inexperience and orders a frontal attack, the Boers kill one of them the instant he shows his head, but the attack presses on.
In the melee two more troopers are wounded, one fatally, and the commander is eventually killed also. One of the Boers receives a nasty wound. The boers take up their wounded comrade and disappear, the Yeomanry are left with their dead and wounded.
