3-085-716 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lieutenants Clifford and Moorhouse, Officers in Charge, and NCOs for Uganda, 1898. 'The recent conflict of Major Macdonald's expedition, from Uganda towards the south-eastern frontier of Abyssinia, with the mutineer Soudanese or Nubian troops which had followed him so far, and with a hostile party of native Mohammedan fanatics in that country, left him in a position requiring military assistance, for which purpose some reinforcements are sent inland from Mombasa...other aid will be forthcoming from the British Uganda Protectorate, supported by the home Government...Major Macdonald, with Mr. Jackson, the Acting Commissioner...had only a score of Sikh soldiers, from India, and two hundred Swahelis or East Africans of the coast, to oppose the well-armed and practised mutineers, with the warlike Baganda on their side; but they nevertheless succeeded in defending the position for many days, inflicting severe loss upon the enemy, and it is hoped that the timely arrival of sufficient help will have enabled Major Macdonald to suppress the revolt...We reproduce a portrait group of officers and non-commissioned officers of the Army Service Corps, who sailed from London last week bound for Uganda'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.