SANDBACH (Major Arthur).
ALS to his mother.
Reporting from Wadi Haifa
An affectionate letter from Arthur Sandbach (1859-1928) to his mother with news of the camp.
“We have sick convoys, and wounded coming through. Men coming and going and stores at the rate of 300 tons a day. All requires arrangement and foresight, but to tell the truth it is much easier to arrange now I am running it myself, than when I have to run it under a General, who may have different views in small details.”
He adds, giving a sense of the scope and timing of the expedition that he has “an officer called Herbert living with me now in this house. He has just come down from Berber with 400 Sudanese recruits to train and will be here for 3 months or so.”
Sandbach (1859-1928) was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in April 1879 and one of his first actions was to serve in the Anglo- Egyptian War of 1882. He fought at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and was also involved in the 1885 Sudan campaign. Sanbach would eventually reach the rank of Major General. At the time of writ- ing the two letters below, he was assistant adjutant general in the Egyptian army during the Gordon Relief expedition.
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