130 THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

SIR CHARLES WILSON, C.B., K.C.M.G.

This distinguished Colonel of the Royal Engineers, who took the com¬ mand as senior officer of the advanced force of the Khartoum Expedition when General Sir Herbert Stewart was wounded, and who afterwards went up in a steamboat to Khartoum, has seen much staff service, and his previous experience had specially qualified him for the duty in which he has just been engaged. As a subaltern, he acted as secretary to Sir J. Hawkins in the delimitation of the boundary between British North America and the United States territory,! and served for several years on the Ordnance Survey in Ireland and Scotland. From 1869 to 1876 he acted as Assistant Quartermaster-General on the In¬ telligence Branch of the Head-quarters’ Staff'. In 1879 he was employed under the Foreign Office in Turkey and Asia Minor, and later on, while officiating as Consul-General of Anatolia was ordered to Egypt for special duty, gaining the medal with clasp and bronze star, for his services in the Egyptian