Letter, 17 Dec 1898, Port Alice, to Arthur Coles in Fort Lugard, Uganda, congratulating him on ‘the slaughter of that scoundrel Billal’.
With accompanying envelope.
Bilal Amin Effendi, a former Sudanese officer of the Uganda Rifles, found guilty of murder and armed mutiny against the government of the Uganda Protectorate, shot in December 1898 by a patrol under Lt C U Price.
From papers associated with Col Arthur Horsman Coles, 1885-1905.
From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.