Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan, by Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Sandes, D.S.O., M.C. Published by the Institute of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1937, with Foreword by General Sir R. F. Wingate, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Part I covers all military operations including the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, Operations on the Red Sea Littoral, the Nile Expedition 1884-85, Gordon in Khartoum, the Dongolla Expedition of 1896, the building of the Railway and Telegraph through the cataracts, the advance to the Atbara, the Desert Railway and Nile Telegraph, battle of Omdurman, operations after Omdurman, Frontier Defence in the Great War, and operations after the Great War; Part II covers civil operations such as Irrigation, Railways, Telegraphs, Surveys and Exploration, red cloth covers, 571pp including 52 illustrations, 35 maps and plans, 25pp index, a useful and scarce volume £100-120