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81 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman. In fact they were not to see action that day. At midday a bombardment of Omdurman was commenced and the rest of the day was spent making preparations for the expected Dervish attack the following dawn.

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164 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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81 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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153 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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153 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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153 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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153 x 83 mm. Showing lines of men seated on the ground awaiting the start of the Battle of Omdurman.

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Packet containing loose monochrome postcards showing scenes in Khartoum. The packet is 'Set III' of four sets issued by the Sudan Government Railways and Steamers.

Scope and Contents 158 x 130 mm. A view showing the flag-raising ceremony at Gordon's palace which took place on September 4th. Two flagpoles have been mounted on the ruined palace. By the right hand pole stand Lieutenant (later Admiral) Cecil Staveley and Captain (later Lieut. Col) James Watson. By the left hand pole stand the Sirdar's Egyptian ADC and Bertram Mitford (later Major General). In the foreground massed soldiers face inwards towards the ruined walls of the palace. A rear view of Capt Von...

Scope and Contents 160 x 109 mm. A view showing a newly released fellow-prisoner of Charles Neufeld's in Yakoub's courtyard (Yakoub was a half-brother of the Khalifa). This man is probably Ibrahim Fawzi Pasha. Originally a cadet in the Egyptian administration in the Sudan, in 1874 he served under Gordon in Equatoria. Emin Pasha took his place when he was convicted of irregularities and for a time he was Arabi Pasha's chief of Police in Cairo (1882). Again employed by Gordon, he was in charge of the...

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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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95 x 125 mm. Three quarter length informal portrait of Abdel in Hebbert's garden.

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165 x 114 mm. A view showing a section of the battlefield after the second phase, the ground littered with dervish corpses. The Khalifa lost a staggering 11,000 men killed and 16,000 wounded at Omdurman. Anglo-Egyptian losses totalled 48 killed and 382 wounded. (However, the Mahdist losses have been, and continue to be, a matter for dispute).

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88 x 158 mm. A very blurred and indistinct view showing dead and wounded dervishes.

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Numbered and labelled slides from the Hebberts' trip to Ethiopia.

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78 x 78 mm. A view showing a carriage. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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135 x 85 mm. Showing eight Europeans stood by the racetrack. Hebbert is fifth from the left. Mrs Hebbert is third from the left, identified as 'LMH'.

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76 x 54 mm. A view of part of a plane.

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76 x 54 mm. A view of part of a plane.

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76 x 54 mm. A view of part of a plane.

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161 x 105 mm. A view showing the corpse of the Emir of the Baggara lying on an angareb (a wooden framed bed) in a courtyard in Omdurman. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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115 x 85 mm. Showing two horses grazing, with their handlers.

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49 x 63 mm. A view showing the shattered bell of the Austrian Mission Church with the walls of the building behind. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

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110 x 85 mm. Showing a man with two horses either side of him.

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79 x 79 mm. A view showing stripped and looted Baggara corpses on the battlefield at Omdurman. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.