3-086-225 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Various portraits, 1898. 'The late Private Robert Cross, Cameron Highlanders, a young man of but twenty-three, did not long enjoy the honourable distinction of having saved General Gatacre's life in the battle of Atbara, for he fell a victim to dysentery...; the late Earl of Caledon, 1st Life Guards, Egyptian Campaign; Surgeon-Captain B. H. Scott, Army Medical Staff, severely wounded, behaved with the utmost courage and self-sacrifice; the Rev. W. H. Barlow, D.D., New Prebendary of St. Paul's; the Rev. J. C. Hoare, New Bishop of Victoria, Hong-Kong, Church Missionary Society in Central China, head of the Theological College at Ningpo; Mr. W. Astor Chanler, raiser of a Volunteer regiment in America, African explorer of note, lack of official recognition has in no way damped his patriotism; and he has now led...[men] equipped at his private expense to Tampa to join the force preparing to invade Cuba; the late Mr. J. S. Hyland, Ph.D., F.G.S. The death of Dr. Hyland, reported by cable from Elmina last week, has not only added another victim to the climatic dangers of the Dark Continent, but has cut short, at the early age of thirty-two, the career of a very talented and popular geologist; Prince Albert of Monaco is an enthusiast on oceanography'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.