Photograph with caption: Royal Warwickshire Mess. River Bank Es Sillem, 11th August 1898.
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Title
Photograph with caption: Royal Warwickshire Mess. River Bank Es Sillem, 11th August 1898.
Description
The 1st Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment served in Sudan in 1898 alongside the Seaforth Highlanders, the Cameron Highlanders and the Lincolnshire Regiment: these four battalions made up a British brigade under the overall command of Major-Gen. William Gatacre (pictured below). The Warwickshires had fought at the Battle of the Atbara (8 April 1898). The photo album begins as the battalion is advancing via Major-Gen. Herbert Kitchener’s newly constructed railway south from the Egyptian border. [FN 11/2020]
Image 7, right side, top row
Publisher
Making African Connections
Format
PhysicalObject
Identifier
GGC404_003
Space/Place
Es Sillem, Sudan
Rights
© Royal Engineers Museum