Sujet
Off to Egypt, 1898. Creators: Guy & Co. Ltd., JT Cumming.
Légende
Off to Egypt, 1898. 'Captain Bernard; Lieutenant Tandy; Captain Gamble; Sergt.-Major Whitehorn, Medical Staff Corps; Conductor Robertson. Considerable preparations are being made to strengthen the British contingent of military to the forces under command of General Sir Herbert Kitchener on the Nile at and above Berber, in expectation of a renewed conflict with the Dervishes from Omdurman and Metemmeh on the route to Khartoum. Battalions of the Seaforth Highlanders from Malta and the Cameron Highlanders from Cyprus are sent on to Egypt; also the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers from Gibraltar, the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers from India, the 1st Royal Irish from Rangoon; large supplies of ammunition and stores are despatched from Woolwich; detachments of Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, Army Service Corps, and Medical Staff...Arrangements for the reinforcement of the army in Egypt have been very assiduously made at the War Office for the last week or two...a strong detachment of officers and men of the Medical Staff Corps and of the Ordnance and Commissariat and Transport Corps are under orders to proceed at once to the front in Egypt. Among the officers nominated for this service are [those whose portraits we give]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM26A14_299
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
18.4Mo (914.0Ko) / 16.8cm x 27.4cm / 1982 x 3240 (300dpi)