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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 857

Sudan
Early Campaigns
1885 Dongola Expedition
1885 (20 May) long letter from I C Barker marked on receipt "On Dongola Expedition", contents include "It appears the campaign is all but over", mention of troops moving down the river and the difficulties of doing so, "there is no water in the river and the rapids are impassable", "We are ordered to move down this week to Fatmeh, an important station 35 miles below this, where Col. Grant is to take Command", "Dongola is to be held by a strong rear guard till the troops are well withdrawn from the front", mention of the Mahdi and Wolseley "was furious that he had not brought Osman Digna to book and allowed him to vanish in the desert"; a fascinating letter offered with a 1923 8m. on 10m. card from Sinket to England signed on reverse by Mohamed Bey Ahmed who captured Osman Dinga

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Sold for
£100

Starting price
£140