3-086-065 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

British officers killed and wounded in the Battle of Atbara, 1898. 'The War in the Soudan - battle...between Sir Herbert Kitchener's army of British and Egyptian troops and that of the Mahdist Khalifa, resulting in the speedy utter defeat of the enemy. Nine British officers and non-commissioned officers and about twenty British soldiers were killed, and eighty-eight wounded...Captain A. C. D. Baillie, wounded; the late Second-Lieutenant P. A. Gore, of the Seaforth Highlanders, who lost his life, was a young officer whose promising career has been cut short; Lieutenant N. A. Thomson, wounded; Colonel J. E. Verner, of the Lincolns, wounded in the action, took part in Sir Donald Stewart's marches on Kandahar by Quetta and from Kandahar to Kabul; Colonel R. H. Murray, Seaforth Highlanders, had his horse shot under him, and was wounded in the arm; the late Captain Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart, who was killed in the action, took part in the Egyptian Campaign; the late Captain Findlay, of the Camerons, who also lost his life, was almost the tallest man in the British Army, standing 6 ft. 6 in his stockings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.