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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 861

Sudan
Early Campaigns
1896 Dongola Expedition
1896 (26 May) Anley correspondence envelope, complete with contents, from "Ambigoli" to his mother in London, marked "Active Service No Stamps, Bimb(ashi)" and showing Wadi Halfa Camp datestamp (31.5), boxed "t" and two "2½d/f.b." handstamps, one deleted; interesting contents including "When it gets a bit further along we will have to concentrate and drive the Dervishes out of Firket where they are now concentrating. It is about 18 miles out of Akasheh". Photo

Note: Written just twelve days before the battle or Firket, led by Lord Kitchener, and for which Anley was awarded a bar to his Khedive's Sudan medal

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