Royal Engineer casualties of The Sudan Expedition 1897-98
/Royal Engineer casualties of The Sudan Expedition 1897-98
Sappers who were killed in the Sudan Expedition 1897-1898, part of the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan are commemorated by a plaque on the west wall of the South Nave Aisle to the left of the main Royal Engineer Memorial.
The plaque reads:
I H S
IN MEMORY OF
SAPPERS W. SMITH, D. MCPHERSON
G.GORMAN, M. MOSES, A.D.F. WYTHE
ROYAL ENGINEERS
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE
SUDAN EXPEDITION 1897-98
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED
BY THEIR COMRADES AD 1902
References
Trett No.58.
Physick No.128.
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