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The New South Wales Military Contingent to the Sudan 1885

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Stanley Brogden, Sudan contingent (Melbourne: Hawthorne Press, 1943). [Background reading].

Rex Clark, New South Wales Soudan Contingent, 1885 (2nd edition, Canberra : Military Historical Society of Australia, 1972). [Brief history, nominal roll by unit, biography of Colonel A.J. Bennett, originally produced as advice to medal collectors].

Richmond Cubis, History of "A" Battery: New South Wales Artillery (1871-1899), Royal Australian Artillery (1899-1971) (Sydney: Elizabeth Press, 1978). [Chapter 2 covers Battery 's involvement in Sudan].

Kit Denton, For Queen and Commonwealth (Sydney: Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1987). [Direct, basic, chronological account].

Rick Grebert, New South Wales Sudan contingent 1885: some biographical and personal details [with statistics] (Caringbah: New South Wales Military Historical Society, 1998). [Statistics: contingent statistics, place of birth, religion, trade or calling, short biographies of contingent members].

Arthur T. Holroyd, Saukim and the country of Soudan (Sydney: Govt Printer, 1885) "Written expressly for the information of the New South Wales military contingent bound for service in Africa ". [Contemporaneous anecdotal advice, detailed map].

Frank Hutchinson and Francis Meyers, 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: Government Printer, 1885). [Detailed contemporaneous description, nominal roll showing rank and unit].

Kenneth Stanley Inglis, The rehearsal: Australians at War in Sudan, 1885 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1985). [In depth historical and political analysis, contemporaneous satirical cartoons, little personal information].

Malcolm Saunders, Britain the Australian colonies, and the Sudan campaigns of 1884-85 (Armidale: University of New England, 1985). [In depth study including historical and political background, extensive footnotes, few personal details].

Thomas Shine, History of the Soudan expedition, an historical record of the events relating to the levy, despatch, and return of the New South Wales Contingent raised for service in Egypt, March and June 1885 (Sydney: Southern Cross Publishing Co, 1885).

Peter Stanley, (ed.) But Little Glory: the New South Wales Contingent to the Sudan, 1885 (Canberra: Military Historical Society of Australia, 1985). [Extensive information, maps, uniforms, weapons, artillery, medal roll, annotated bibliography].

Ralph Sutton, Soldiers of the queen: war in the Soudan (Sydney: New South Wales Military Historical Society and the Royal New South Wales Regiment, NSW, 1985). [Detailed history, battle honours list, chronology, maps, nominal roll, establishment and enlistment p53].