EGYPT & SUDAN GEMIAZAH 1888, 20th HUSSARS, K.I.A IN THE CAVALRY CHARGE AT GEMAIZAH 20-12-1888

Egypt & Sudan medal 1882-1889 with Gemaizah 1888 clasp To- 2680.PTE.F.HOWES.20th.HUSSARS.
The recipient was killed in action during rhe cavalry charge at Gemaizah 20-12-1888 & was one of only four members of the regiment to be killed in the charge.
‘It was indeed a glorious charge, though marred with grief and pain. For Newton, Thomas, Jordan, Howes, were numbered with the slain. We bore them from the field of strife with tenderness and love. And trusted that their souls had found a resting place above. Then our thoughts returned to Cairo camp, with mottoes and its flowers. With saddened recollections of its gay and festive bowers. We wept for our gallant comrades, as still in death they lay. And in the camp of our beaten foes we spent our Christmas Day.’ (The reflections of Trooper E. L. Wedlake, 20th Hussars, refer).

The four men of the 20th Hussars were re-interred in the Khartoum Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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