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One of 44 letters and other documents written by Capt Percy Wilfred Machell, 2nd Bn Essex Regiment during service in the Sudan, January to August 1885 up to his hospitalisation with dysentery and subsequent recuperation in Cairo and England and then return to Egypt in December 1885. 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).

1st Sudan War (1883-1885)