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Avenging General Gordon
On campaign
The men of the Contingent steamed from Sydney on the troopships Iberia and Australasian, outfitted in scarlet jackets, dark blue trousers and white helmets. The British uniform was changing, though, and when the men arrived in Sudan, they received the khaki uniforms favoured by the British in their colonial wars. By the end of the century, the whole British army would be dressed in khaki. The Australian War Memorial recently acquired one of these khaki uniforms.
On arrival at the Red Sea port of Suakin in Sudan, the infantry battalion of the Contingent marched to join the main force of British regular and Indian Army troops. Private Frank Walters wrote, “With our valises and all our harness on, we had to trudge about two miles through heavy sand over our boot tops, and in the blazing sun.” When the colonials arrived in camp, General Sir Gerald Graham, commanding, addressed the men:
“The eyes of all English-speaking races, and indeed those of the whole civilised world, are upon you, and I am certain that you will uphold the honour of the Empire. I feel proud to command such a force, and am sure it will do the greatest credit to New South Wales and to the race of which you are an important part.”
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Welcome to our first Bulletin of where we’re homing in on General Gordon and the Sudan Campaigns, and TE Lawrence and his epic tale the First World War, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. Our stand out object this time is a finely cast and patinated bronze reduction of the memorial statue of Gordon mounted on a Sudanese camel that was commissioned in by Gordon’s former corps, the Royal Engineers from Royal Academician Edward Onslow Ford. Of equal quality and signifigance is a fine bronze reduction of Sir William Hamo Thorneycroft’s statue that stands pensively on Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. The Sudan theme continues with a Dervish dagger from the Omdurman battlefield and broad bladed Fuzzy-Wuzzy spear of the type that one of the principal protagonists depicted in George William Joy’s painting ‘The death of General Gordon’ aims portentiously at the military matyr on the steps of his palace. The first news of Gordon’s death was a scoop for the veteran war reporter Bennett Burleigh whose use of underhand tactics to beat his rivals was legendary. His aggressive reporting won the desperate gratitude of the Daily Telegraph editor who duly rewarded him with the fine presentation sword also offered here.
Shifting sands to the Hejaz and the other military mystic, Lawrence of Ara