Cameron Highlanders demonstrating how they form a square in the desert. Around the Battle of Atbara on 8th April 1898 in the Sudanese War. Sudan. [1200×602]
Cliched, but I can never see this image without Newbolts poem running through my head…
The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with the wreck of a square that broke
The Gatling’s jammed and the Colonel dead
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke
The river of death has brimmed his banks
And England’s far, and Honour a name…..
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Cliched, but I can never see this image without Newbolts poem running through my head…
The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with the wreck of a square that broke
The Gatling’s jammed and the Colonel dead
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke
The river of death has brimmed his banks
And England’s far, and Honour a name…..