Diary used by Col John Hassard Stewart Gibb, Worcestershire Regiment, attached 9th Bn Egyptian Army, 15 Aug 1884-5 May 1885.
Bound, in MS notebook, 45 pages; account of 9th Bn Egyptian Army’s movement up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Fatmeh (near Omdurman), during which period the force met Wolseley and Kitchener a few times, but saw nothing of the enemy.
From a group of fifteen diaries, papers and maps of Col John Hassard Stewart Gibb, Worcestershire Regiment, 1884-1896.
Associated with 1st Sudan War (1884-1885).