Sujet

British officers killed and wounded in the Battle of Atbara, 1898. Creators: Unknown, Elliott & Fry, JT Cumming.

Légende

British officers killed and wounded in the Battle of Atbara, 1898. 'The War in the Soudan - battle...between Sir Herbert Kitchener's army of British and Egyptian troops and that of the Mahdist Khalifa, resulting in the speedy utter defeat of the enemy. Nine British officers and non-commissioned officers and about twenty British soldiers were killed, and eighty-eight wounded...Captain A. C. D. Baillie, wounded; the late Second-Lieutenant P. A. Gore, of the Seaforth Highlanders, who lost his life, was a young officer whose promising career has been cut short; Lieutenant N. A. Thomson, wounded; Colonel J. E. Verner, of the Lincolns, wounded in the action, took part in Sir Donald Stewart's marches on Kandahar by Quetta and from Kandahar to Kabul; Colonel R. H. Murray, Seaforth Highlanders, had his horse shot under him, and was wounded in the arm; the late Captain Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart, who was killed in the action, took part in the Egyptian Campaign; the late Captain Findlay, of the Camerons, who also lost his life, was almost the tallest man in the British Army, standing 6 ft. 6 in his stockings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A15_204

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

27.2Mo (1.2Mo) / 31.4cm x 21.6cm / 3714 x 2557 (300dpi)

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