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163 x 116 mm. A view showing soldiers of the Camerons and Seaforths digging graves. The British Brigade (composed of Royal Warwicks, Lincolns, Seaforths and Camerons) lost five officers and 21 men in the action, the Egyptian Brigade lost 57 men. Mahmoud's losses are estimated at 3000 or more.

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153 x 114 mm. A view showing two Cameron Highlanders riding a camel on the advance from Wad Hamid. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Leaving Wad Hamed'.

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125 x 130 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert sat at a table outside a tent.

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204 x 151 mm. A view looking towards the Royal Horse Artillery encampment with artillery pieces in the foreground, a corral of horse beyond and tents in the background. The camp is surrounded by a low mud and sandbag stockade. Suakin Island can be seen in the distance at the left of the print.

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206 x 156 mm. A view looking between two rows of tents, with a few men standing watching the photographer.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a canon placed before a doorway.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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150 x 130 mm. A view showing Captain (later Brigadier General) William Cavendish on a camel in front of the damaged tomb of the Mahdi. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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150 x 115 mm. A view showing Captain McLean marching beside 'G' Company Cameron Highlanders as they leave Wad Hamid. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Leaving Wad Hamed'.

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78 x 80 mm. A view showing von Tiedemann in full military uniform with plumed hat standing on a jetty on the banks of the Nile. Tiedemann uses a copy of this illustration in his own book (1906) and it is there entitled 'Der Verfasser im Paradeanzug für die Gordonfieir' (the author in full dress uniform for the Gordon ceremony).

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79 x 79 mm. A view showing Ismail Pasha's covered carriage. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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Southern Sudan.

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100 x 130 mm. Showing resting cattle with mountains beyond.

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'The kuku have have [sic] cleared away so much bush that they now have a sanctuary from tetse fly'.

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70 x 45 mm. Showing a pen of sheep at the market.

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70 x 45 mm. Showing cattle in pens at the market.

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202 x 146 mm. A view looking towards the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, with ships at anchor beyond. The causeway, five large piers and five miles of narrow gauge railway were completed by the Royal Engineers in Mar. 1885.

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80 x 120 mm.

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111 x 154 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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15 sheets.

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14 sheets.

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27 sheets.

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28 sheets.

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18 sheets.