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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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122 x 122 mm. A view showing a man, possibly a correspondent, beside his camel watching a wounded dervish on the battlefield. Another aspect of the battle that came in for later criticism was the killing of wounded dervishes. In many cases, however, there was little else the advancing army could do since throughout all the Sudan campaigns it was dervish practice to fight to the death and several men were killed and wounded while attempting to help the fallen.

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80 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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80 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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160 x 126 mm. A view showing Lloyd and Bathurst standing outside a tent in the Omdurman camp, with the Nile in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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159 x 134 mm. A view showing Lieut (later Baron) Jeffreys with the cub on a lead, watched by Capt Marshall and with Private Currell in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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156 x 134 mm. A view showing the three officers standing outside a tent in the Omdurman camp, with Private Jones in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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82 x 67 mm. A view showing Sudanese soldiers walking among the piles of dead dervishes in their white jibbas on the battlefield of Omdurman.

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165 x 114 mm. A view showing two Egyptian soldiers looting arms and valuables from the dead dervishes on the battlefield of Omdurman. The customary Egyptian practice of looting the dead after battle was one of the many aspects of the campaign for which Kitchener was later criticised.

Scope and Contents 150 x 115 mm. A view looking across the mihrab towards the shell pocked tomb of the Mahdi. This damage was done during the bombardment of September 1st, the day before the battle, with howitzers firing 50lb shells using the new high explosive 'Lyddite'. The tomb, a beehive shaped building decorated inside in green and chocolate brown, was erected by the Khalifa. Around the tomb itself were protective railings taken from the Austrian Mission Church. Kitchener realising the potency of the...

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80 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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161 x 111 mm. A view showing Captain Charles Oswald Smeaton supervising English soldiers and Sudanese porters in the loading of maxim guns aboard a Nile boat at Omdurman.

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139 x 84 mm.

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84 x 59 mm.

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138 x 87 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Packet containing loose monochrome postcards (one missing from original set of six). The postcards show scenes in Omdurman. The packet is 'Set II' of four sets issued by the Sudan Government Railways and Steamers.

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The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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161 x 113 mm. A view showing Grenadier Guards seated at a table under an awning. Their names are listed as: ' Lieut. E. Seymour. Lieut. F. Swaine. Lieut.-Col. F. [later Lt Gen Sir Francis] Lloyd. Lieut. E. Verschoyle. Lieut. G. Russell. Capt. Murray-Threipland. Lieut. H. Stucley. Lieut. [later Lt General Sir] Sidney Clive. Lieut. E. Trotter. Lieut. F. Hervey-Bathurst. Capt. W. Marshall'. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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153 x 114 mm. A view showing Grenadier Guards seated at a table under an awning. Their names are listed as: ' Lieut. E. Seymour. Lieut. F. Swaine. Lieut.-Col. F. [later Lt Gen Sir Francis] Lloyd. Lieut. E. Verschoyle. Lieut. G. Russell. Capt. Murray-Threipland. Lieut. H. Stucley. Lieut. [later Lt General Sir] Sidney Clive. Lieut. E. Trotter. Lieut. F. Hervey-Bathurst. Capt. W. Marshall'. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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163 x 136 mm. A view showing two Arabs, three soldiers of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and a pony. The group are named as: ''Tommy'. Private Edward Godfrey, No. 4 Coy, 1st Batt. Grenadier Guards. Native Groom. Private Thomas Hart, No. 4 Coy. Pony 'Malabrigo'. 1st Batt. Grenadier Guards. Lieut. [later Brigadier General Sir Ernest] E.F.O. Gascoigne, Adjutant, D.S.O.'. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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163 x 169 mm. A view showing two Arabs, three soldiers of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and a pony. The group are named as: ''Tommy'. Private Edward Godfrey, No. 4 Coy, 1st Batt. Grenadier Guards. Native Groom. Private Thomas Hart, No. 4 Coy. Pony 'Malabrigo'. 1st Batt. Grenadier Guards. Lieut. [later Brigadier General Sir Ernest] E.F.O. Gascoigne, Adjutant, D.S.O.'. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.