Looking for help in starting a Mahdist War project.

[Plynkes]

From the aforementioned "Fuzzy Wuzzy" by Brian Robson (not the footballer ). This little book really is crammed with excellent little details. A book like this on every campaign I'm interested in would be a godsend:


1884  Suakin Campaign

Cavalry

10th Hussars
19th Hussars


Infantry

1st Batt Royal Highlanders (42nd Foot - Black Watch)
3rd Batt King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th - KRRC)
1st Batt York and Lancaster Regt.
1st Batt Gordon Highlanders (75th)
2nd Batt Royal Irish Fusilers (89th)
Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI)


Artillery

6 Battery, 1 Brigade, Scottish Division (Garrison)
M Battery, 1 Brigade, Royal Artillery
Royal Marine Artillery


Engineers

26th (Field) Company, RE



Interestingly he makes no mention of the Naval Brigade in this particular appendix (they manned Graham's six machine guns in the first campaign) or the Mounted Infantry (formed from regiments from the Army of Occupation of Egypt - KRRC, Black Watch, Gordons and Royal Sussex), but he does acknowledge them in the main text of the book. An oversight, I suppose.





1885 Suakin Campaign

Cavalry

5th Lancers
19th Hussars
20th Hussars
9th Bengal Cavalry


Infantry

3rd Batt Grenadier Guards
1st Batt Coldstream Guards
2nd Batt Scots Guards
1st Batt Berkshire Regt. (49th)
1st Batt King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI - 53rd)
2ns Batt East Surrey Regt. (70th)
Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI)
15th Bengal Native Infantry (Loodhiana Sikhs)
17th Bengal Native Infantry (Loyal Purbeah)
28th Bombay Native Infantry (2nd Baluch)
New South Wales Infantry Battalion


Artillery

G Battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
5 Battery, 1 Brigade, Scottish Division (Garrison)
6 Battery, 1 Brigade, Scottish Division (Garrison)
Royal Marine Artillery
New South Wales Battery


Engineers

10th (Railway) Company, RE
17th (Field) Company, RE
24th (Field) Company, RE
F Company, Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners


Likewise, there were six machine guns manned by the Navy and Marines, and a battalion of Mounted Infantry.

[commissarmoody]

Thanks sjwalker51 and Plynkes. That's a great places to start.