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140 x 87 mm. Boats on the shore.

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78 x 52 mm. Boats on the shore.

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52 x 77 mm. A boat on the river.

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78 x 52 mm. A group of animals beneath trees.

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A plan of Hebbert's house in Khartoum, which he occupied 1939-1945, with manuscript annotations.

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78 x 51 mm.

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170 x 115 mm. Groups seated at tables al fresco. Hebbert is on the front left table, fourth from the left.

Scope and Contents A letter from King William's Town, South Africa, 21 July 1882 (4 pages), commenting on events in Egypt and on nationalism as a force there and elsewhere. There is an accompanying newscutting of circa 1969 concerning the letter. The folder also includes one of the notes issued by General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum, 1884-1885. The papers are accompanied by 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 159 (March 1970), including the article 'General Gordon on nationalism' (pp....

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Letters in German from Austrian Consuls-General at Cairo and their agents at Khartoum dealing with events in Southern Sudan, including the work of the Vicariate of Central Africa, consular returns from Khartoum and provisional instructions for the Consulate at Khartoum, c. 170 pages. The letters were transcribed from originals in the Östereichisches Staatsarchiv in Vienna by Richard Gray for his 'A history of Southern Sudan' (1961).

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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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Gordon Memorial College (1899) was united with other educational institutions to form the University College of Khartoum in 1951. It became the University of Khartoum in 1956, shortly after the Sudan had become independent and had not joined the Commonwealth.

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110 x 80 mm. Showing a man with two horses in Hebbert's garden.

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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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84 x 59 mm.

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138 x 87 mm.

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139 x 84 mm.

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60 x 60 mm. Group photograph of Hebbert's family, posed in a driveway.

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95 x 130 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert with two bicycles.

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125 x 95 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert and two men seated on a stone wall in Hebbert's garden.

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125 x 95 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert and two men seated on a stone wall in the Hebberts' garden.