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The Battle of Leliefontein was an engagement between Canadian and Boer forces during the Second Boer War on 7 November 1900. It was during the fiercely contested British withdrawal from the banks of the Komati River The Canadians of the Royal Canadian Dragoons were tasked with covering the withdrawal of the larger British force under the command of Major-General Horace Smith-Dorrien. The Royal Canadian Dragoons would save two Canadian guns during the battle. Three dragoons, Sergeant Edward James Gibson Holland, Lieutenant Richard Ernest William Turner and Lieutenant Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, would win the Victoria Cross for their actions.
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