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Bees was attached to one of the Maxim guns which suffered
severely during the action at Moedwil, on September 30, 1901. Of
the nine men serving the gun, six were hit and lay badly
wounded. Unable to bear their cries for water any longer, Bees
determined to try to procure some from a spruit about five
hundred yards away in front of the gun, and held by the Boers.
Under a raking fire he doggedly went forward and succeeded in
filling a camp kettle, having during this devoted mission to
pass—in going and returning within one hundred yards of some
Boers posted behind rocks, and, though the vessel he carried was
hit by several bullets, he contrived to reach his comrades and give them the relief they so
sorely needed.
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