 During the battle, Captain Arthur Wilson of joined the right half-battery, Naval Brigade, in place of a lieutenant who was mortally wounded.As the troops closed on the enemy battery, the Dervish charged out on the detachment which was dragging one of the guns, whereupon Wilson sprang to the front and engaged in single combat with some of the enemy, and so protected the detachment until men of the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, came to his assistance.For this action he was awarded the Victoria Cross.