3-085-715 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Soudan Advance: departure of the 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment for the front from Sidi-Gaber Station, Ramleh, on January 9., 1898. '1. Approaching the Station: A Halt Outside the Barrier. 2. Passing the Barrier on the Up-Platform. 3. Colonel Longbourne and Major Quayle-Jones. 4. Crossing the Bridge to the Departure Platform. 5. Crossing to the Departure Platform. 6. "Good-bye; Good Luck!". On Jan. 18, General Gatacre, appointed to command the additional force of British troops about to join the Egyptian army of Sir Herbert Kitchener, left Cairo with Major Talbot and Major Hunter Blair for the Upper Nile. Troops have been sent up, including Royal Artillery, the Lincolnshire and Warwickshire battalions, and others, to Abu Hamed and Berber; but Sir Herbert Kitchener does not contemplate any forward movement just now, during the season of low water in the river, while the gun-boats remain inactive. Bands of Dervishes have been heard of again in the Eastern Soudan, where the route to Suakim does not yet appear quite safe. The Kassala garrison seems able to protect itself against their approach. Our Illustrations show the departure of the men of the Warwickshire Regiment for the front'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.