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210 x 160 mm. General view.

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199 x 153 mm. A group portrait of 14 non-commissioned officers posed in front of a metal wagon covered by a canvas awning.

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205 x 157 mm. A distant view probably taken shortly after their arrival on 29 Mar. 1885 under the command of Colonel John S. Richardson. Although too late to join the major actions, the contingent provided useful service at the end of the campaign.

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203 x 142 mm. A view looking towards No. 2 Pier where an unidentified steamer (No. 65) is offloading sacks of provisions. In the foreground a group of soldiers watches the proceedings while in the background more shipping can be seen at anchor in the crowded harbour. No. 2 Pier was the most easterly of the landing stages on Quarantine Island and formed the main terminus of the Suakin-Otao railway.

Scope and Contents 187 x 141 mm. A view looking along one of the piers on the south east side of Quarantine Island with ships at anchor at the right of the print. A notice in the foreground reads ‘Officers only are permitted to bathe from this pier’. The town of Suakin relied almost entirely on the wells to the south west of the town for its water; with the arrival of a large military force these wells, which although guarded were outside the main fortified area, were totally inadequate. Water for the troops...

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204 x 152 mm. A group portrait showing officers of the Adjutant General’s and Quarter Master General’s Departments taken beneath the awning of the tent seen in Y3042A/27, 28 and 29.

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205 x 154 mm. A group portrait of 25 Grenadier Guards officers.

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110 x 175 mm. Showing a seated young girl. Her hair is in plaits.

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215 x 273 mm Duplicate of Y3042/22.

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196 x 247 mm. Half length seated studio portrait of a Sudanese warrior, his arm resting in an arm rest. According to the caption this is a portrait of Osman Digna (c 1840-1926), the Sudanese leader who joined the Mahdist cause in 1883 after imprisonment by the British and Egyptians for particiating in the slave trade. He was active in the Sudan until the decisive defeat of Mahdism at Omdurman in 1898; after this battle he fled to the Red Sea hills.

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201 x 153 mm. A distant view of the camp and the mountains beyond, with men and horses drinking at the wells in the middleground of the picture.

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205 x 153 mm. A view looking south west over the camp at Otao, with the Commissariat at the left of the print.

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204 x 153 mm. A view looking towards the wells, with a corner of the camp visible in the right foreground.

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203 x 154 mm. A view looking towards the terminus of the Suakin-Berber railway: work is still in progress on the line and a railway locomotive and waggons are parked near the head of the track. At the left of the picture part of the army camp can be seen surrounded by a protective zariba of thorny mimosa.

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205 x 151 mm. A view showing a group of ‘friendlies’ sitting beneath mimosa trees at Otao. ‘Friendlies’ was the name given to those peoples who allied themselves to the British in the campaign.

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204 x 150 mm. A view showing Royal Engineers Officers seated outside the makeshift wooden mess building with two Arabs and a seated camel in the foreground.

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202 x 156 mm. A view looking along the railway pier on Quarantine, or Condenser Island, with railway tracks and workers in the foreground and the steamer ‘Norfolk’ anchored in the harbour beyond the pier.

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204 x 150 mm. A view showing Royal Engineers Officers seated outside the makeshift wooden mess building with two Arabs and a seated camel in the foreground.

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207 x 153 mm. A view showing a small rocky hill near Otao with the railway in the foreground. On the hill stands a group of soldiers well-disguised against the rock and scrub.

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210 x 160 mm. View of a derelict stone building.

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210 x 160 mm. A view of a derelict stone building, by the waters edge.

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207 x 151 mm. A view showing the small fortified position just north of Sandbag Camp, a pillbox construction with slits for firing through, topped by a wood and canvas platform. In the foreground can be seen a section of the narrow gauge railway supply line from the Ordnance Depot and Quarantine Island.

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Unlabelled slides from Hebbert's time in Africa.

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210 x 160 mm. View of a gatehouse guarded by two men and two cannons.

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Unlabelled slides from Hebbert's time in Africa.