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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 77

Sudan The Second Suakin Expedition 1896 (10 June) India 1a. on 9p. Soldiers´ and Seaman´s envelope from "W.H. Robinson Assist. Surgeon Native General Hospital Suakim Force" to Multan, India, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and neatly cancelled with "base office/b" c.d.s., the reverse with Sea Post Office (15.6) and arrival (24.6). Photo Estimate £ 200-250 Note: As Kitchener needed every Egyptian and Sudanese soldier for his operations on the Nile, in early May the British Government ordered the Indian Government to prepare a brigade for service in Egypt. The Indian Contingent, about 4,000 strong, including Post Office staff, hospital personnel, etc, left Bombay on 21st. May reaching Suakin on the 30th. The force was left at Suakin and Tokar. Very high temperatures resulted in many men suffering from scurvy, malaria and other diseases. Only six British Officers escaped hospitalisation. The decimated troops returned to India on 8th. December provenance: William Frazer, 2004

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