Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century 3rd Platoon

3rd Platoon

The regiment continued to drive forward toward the heartland of Germany

The helmet bears a wonderfully detailed hand painted 377th Medical Company Air Ambulance insignia to the reverse that reads:

Hood was appointed Admiral in 1787

The Swagger Stick has what is most likely a bone carving of the family pet BULLDOG as its top

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century 3rd PlatoonOriginal items: One Set of Two Only. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the