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Major-General Blomfield led eight companies of Lancashire Fusiliers while Edward Woodgate commanded six companies from Royal Lancaster Regiment alongside two South Lancashire companies. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Thorneycroft directed the initial assault with 360 mounted infantrymen before taking overall command after Woodgate fell mortally wounded.
British suffered 243 fatalities many buried where they fell in trenches and approximately 1,250 wounded or captured joined the toll. The total casualties included significant losses among officers such as Major H.H.Massy and Captain N.H.Vertue who died during the bombardment.
Mohandas Gandhi served as stretcher-bearer organizing Indian Ambulance Corps receiving decoration for service amidst heavy fighting. He organized an ambulance corps serving as stretcher-bearer during the engagement which resulted in 335 Boer deaths including Commandant Prinsloo's fifty-five killed and wounded out of eighty-eight men.
Thorneycroft ordered unauthorized withdrawal claiming soldiers had no water and ammunition ran short after his nerve shattered following sixteen hours performing brigadier-general duties without instructions. Warren had dispatched Coke's brigade yet refused to order attacks on Tabanyama or fire on Aloe Knoll leaving Thorneycroft without direct support.
Hill outside Llanwrtyd Wells Powys bears same designation commemorating event while golf courses worldwide feature holes named after Spion Kop including Craigie Hill Edzell Strathtay Traigh East Geelong Launceston Royal Sydney Otaga Centenary Course. Village near Mansfield Nottinghamshire adopted name Spion Kop honoring battle memory and hill Paracombe South Australia named Spionkop approximately four hundred metres high locality Kurri Kurri NSW junction West Melbourne railyards SAS Spioenkop frigate F147 rocky outcrop Arklow Ireland mountain top Narvik Norway named Spionkopen.