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Troops of the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, rest before the 1898 Battle of Omdurman, the deciding battle of the Mahdist War. Bottom right: Chitral Fort, before the 1895 siege by Pathan fighters. (Walter James, National Army Museum, London)
Troops of the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, rest before the 1898 Battle of Omdurman, the deciding battle of the Mahdist War. Bottom right: Chitral Fort, before the 1895 siege by Pathan fighters. (Walter James, National Army Museum, London)