A soldier of the 10th Sudanese Battalion, 1889 (c)

Drawing by Major B D A Donne, 10th Sudanese Battalion, 1889 (c).

Part of the Egyptian Army, the 10th Sudanese Battalion was recruited in the Sudan but commanded by British officers. It had been raised in 1883 by Captain B D A Donne and saw much action in the Sudan from 1884 onwards where it acquitted itself well against Mahdist forces. Along with the other Sudanese battalions, the 10th were widely as regarded as among the best troops in the Egyptian Army.