Photographs.  Hon. Hubert Howard. Life & Death. Military...

Hammer

£450

Photographs.  Hon. Hubert Howard. Life & Death. Military - Omdurman. 21st Lancers. 1898. Dark morocco oblong quarto album of 160 photographs (11cms x 9cms etc), mainly captioned & many by Hubert Howard, shipboard & dockside informal portraits, military life, 21st lancers in action, snapshots incl "Hubert at the Battle of Omdurman", his grave ("Killed at Khartum, Sept, 1898"), earlier S. African images (incl. Robertson`s Cape Boys & Hubert in Hospital, Matabeleland), university & sporting photos., concluding with more military shots around Omdurman, after the battle (dead & wounded), Gordon`s Palace at Khartoum, Egyptian soldiery, Col. Francis Howard heading 2nd Batt., Rifle Brigade, 21st Lancers in camp, Major Hamilton on Hubert`s horse which carried him in the charge of the 21st, memorial stones & grave of Hubert Howard.