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
Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. The contingent, 'an infantry battalion of 522 men and 24 officers and an artillery battery of 212 men' (Australian War Memorial website) arrived in the Sudan on 29 March 1885; it saw little action before it departed on 17 May after the British Government..... More