Lieutenant Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Scots Guards, Nile Expedition, 1885.

Oil on canvas by Frank Smyth Baden-Powell 1885.

Attached to Guards Camel Corps, 1st Sudan War (1884-1885).

Lieutenant Frank Baden-Powell was attached to Camel Corps during the 1st Sudan War (1884-1885). The Camel Corps had been formed for the Gordon Relief Expedition. The Guards detachments of the Corps consisted of 23 officers and 400 men from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Grenadier Guards, 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Coldstream Guards and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Scots Guards.