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Egyptian Army Sudan.
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Egyptian Army Sudan

A limited edition soldier depicts a Fellah from the Egyptian Army in the Sudan Campaign c.1883.

Britian’s long military association with Egypt arose primarily from the strategic importance of that country in relation to British possessions in the east, principally India. Its strategic importance was enhanced by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, providing the easiest sea-route from Britain to India of which Britain had a controlling interest in the canal.

The bulk of the Egyptian army was made up of peasants (fellahin), including all the cavalry; with the rest being Sudanese, recruited from the Africans of the south. Egyptian infantry wore a small red fez (tarboosh) Up to 1884, they wore a summer dress of white cotton cloth tunic and loose white trousers tucked into white gaiters, worn over black shoes. Winter dress was a dark blue tunic and trousers, with the latter trimmed in white.

The Egyptian army played a key role in Britains Colonial wars with Campaigns in Egypt and Sudan, between 1882 and 1898, The revolt of Arabi Pasha, 1882, The First Sudan War, 1882 to 1884, Egyptian campaign 1885, and the reconquest of the Sudan in 1896 - 1898. It was in the Sudan that the British fought the dervish Mahdists better known as the Fuzzy Wuzzies and Gordon of Khartoum was immortalised.

British Colonial Africana Soldier Collection

Click here for details of the hand carved wooden Kings African Rifles Soldiers and Colonial Africana Soldiers.

Wooden Soldier Regimental Histories

All of my wooden soldiers are made in strictly limited editions, click here for a regimental history of each soldier.