One of 45 letters and other documents written by Lt Percy Wilfred Machell, 2nd Bn Essex Regiment from Gibraltar, Malta and Abbassiyeh, Cairo, Egypt, then London, January to July 1884 before returning to Egypt and the Sudan in July 1884 on SS Manora and taking part in the effort to relieve Khartoum with the 2nd Bn Essex Regiment (56th Regiment).
From a collection of 500 letters written by Lt Col Percy Wilfred Machell, Essex Regiment and Sudanese Army, 1882-1896.
Associated with the 1st Sudan War (1884-1885).