The Australian Contingent: A History of the Patriotic Movement in New South Wales and an Account of the despatch of troops to the assistance of the imperial forces in the Soudan (1885) By F. Hutchinson and Francis Myers
 
The preface captures some of the frenzied sentiment surrounding the departure of the Sudan contingent: 'It was unquestionably the death of the heroic but ill-starred General Gordon that furnished the first impulse that has sent 800 Australians to help to avenge, or to share his fate. The story of his desperate mission to Khartoum, and its disastrous end, is of course all too fresh and ineffaceable in men's memories to need recounting.'
 
The contingent, 'an infantry battalion of 522 men and 24 officers and an artillery battery of 212 men' arrived in the Sudan on 29 March 1885; it saw little action before it departed on 17 May after the British Government decided to abandon the campaign. Pages 250-266 contain a complete list of the names of the members of the contingent. 
 
Contains several inscriptions of W. Cleugh Black who was a prominent Baptist Minister of the era.
 
Hard Cover
285 Pages
In Poor to Fair Condition- Rear Book cover has detached