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taken to Abu-Klea and left there with the rest of the wounded under a strong guard when the main column marched on to the Nile. Admiral Jervis, who gained his peerage by winning the battle of St. Vincent in 1797, was created Baron Jervis, Earl, and afterwards Viscount St. Vincent. When he died, without issue, in 1823 the barony and earldom expired, but the viscountcy devolved by remainder on his nephew, the grandfather of John Edward Leveson Jervis, the officer who received his deathwound at Abu-Klea. He had succeeded to the title as fourth viscount on the death of his father in July, 1879, served in the Zulu War of 1879 as orderly officer to Major-general Marshall, and was present with the 17th Lancers in the engagements at the Zuinguin Mountain and Ulundi, for which service he obtained the medal and clasp. He also served as orderly officer to Brigadier-general MacGregor in the expedition against the Marrees in Southern Afghanistan in 1880, and in the Boer war of 1881 as adjutant of Barrow's Mounted Infantry. In 1882 he took part in the Egyptian campaign as aide-de-camp to Majorgeneral Drury Lowe, commanding the cavalry division, and he was present at the battle of Tel-el- Kebir and the capture of Cairo.

Lieutenant James Dunbar Guthrie, of the B Brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery, entered the service from the Royal Academy on January 25, 1877. This was his first campaign.

Yes, the list of the killed and wounded among what was comparatively a handful of men was distressing; but the situation made it imperative that if that small force w-as to accomplish its work, to reach Metammeh to communicate with Gordon at Khartum and to await the arrival of the Nile column, and the commanderin-chief and his reserves from Korti, they must push on and occupy a position on the Nile bank. It was some time before the loss in men and camels could be realized. Boxes of ammunition, for which there were no camels, and the rifles of the killed and wounded men, were found upon the field. Much ammunition had been burned, many rifles broken, the fire from the burning cartridges catching the pack saddles of the dead or wounded camels and smouldering and fizzling in a horrible way. It was