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Atbara (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

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A Wood DepĂ´t, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/22
Scope and Contents

162 x 104 mm. A view showing local workers under the supervision of an English officer, working in an outdoor wood store. Exact location unknown, probably Atbara.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Atbara Fort, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/51
Scope and Contents

76 x 76 mm. A distant and indistinct view of the Atbara camp from the river.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baggage, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/16
Scope and Contents

79 x 79 mm. A view showing Arab porters unloading baggage from a train (near Atbara ?).

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camerons and Seaforths burying their dead after the Battle of Atbara, April 8th, 1898-04-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/24
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1898-04-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Col. Wingate leaving train, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/14
Scope and Contents

79 x 79 mm. A view showing Wingate and a group of army officers disembarking. Exact location unknown, possibly near Atbara (although the railway did not get to Atbara itself until July 1898, three months after the battle of Atbara).

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Col. Wingate leaving train, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/15
Scope and Contents

78 x 78 mm. With Wingate talking to an Arab. Possibly near Atbara.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Field Day, Grenadier Guards. Col. Hatton on donkey. Lieut E.F.O. Gascoigne, D.S.O., Adjutant, 1898-08-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/47
Scope and Contents

165 x 108 mm. A view showing Hatton and Gascoigne seated on donkeys with soldiers of the Grenadier Guards in front of them. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.

Dates: 1898-08-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Junction of the Atbara and the Nile at Atbara Camp, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/19
Scope and Contents

158 x 107 mm. A view looking across the junction of the Rivers Atbara and Nile, with the tents of the army encampment visible in the distance.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lieut J.A. Morrison, Lieut M. Gurdon-Rebow, Lieut. Charles Corkran, Capt. the Hon. W. Cavendish, Grenadier Guards, 1898-08-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/46
Scope and Contents

164 x 108 mm. A view showing this group of officers standing on an open plain at Atbara. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.

Dates: 1898-08-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mahmoud in his bloodstained Jibba, just captured at Battle of the Atbara, April 8th. Escort of 10th Sondanese Battalion, 1898-04-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/25
Scope and Contents

162 x 115 mm. A view showing Mahmoud in the centre of a group of Sudanese soldiers. The bloodstains on his Jibba are from a bayonet wound in his left leg. Mahmoud was imprisoned at Rosetta and died in 1906.

Dates: 1898-04-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Major C. A'Court, R.B., Brigade-Major, Col Villiers Hatton, C.B., Grenadier Guards, on his donkey, the Colonel's Bugler, 1898-08-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/45
Scope and Contents

164 x 108 mm. A view showing the above-name figures on the parade ground at Atbara Camp during the field day. Colonel (later Major-General) Hatton was in command of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards during the campaign. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.

Dates: 1898-08-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Northumberland Fusiliers and Grenadier Guards. Lieut Gascoigne, DSO, Adjutant on his donkey, 1898-08-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/48
Scope and Contents

164 x 109 mm. A blurred print showing a long row of kneeling soldiers with Hatton and Gascoigne on their donkeys behind. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.

Dates: 1898-08-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sirdar's House in Atbara Fort, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/20
Scope and Contents

157 x 196 mm. An exterior view of Kitchener's headquarters at Atbara, a long low single storied building with a thatched roof.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders leaving Atbara, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/204
Scope and Contents

155 x 127 mm. A view showing a trainload of Camerons leaving Atbara, with an officer standing on the platform in the foreground.

Dates: 1898
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).