Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Wars African Dervish Targe Shield Supposedly Taken at Battle of Omdurman Snider Rifle Parts and is missing some plating

and is missing some plating as well

the regiment officially became The Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 July 1881

if it could only talk

The blade ricasso is maker marked and dated with HM3 / 1945

Please See David Harding's stellar work "Smallarms of the East India Company 1600-1856" published in four volumes by Foresight Books in 1997

Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Wars African Dervish Targe Shield Supposedly Taken at Battle of Omdurman Snider Rifle Parts and is missing some platingOriginal Item: Only One Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptionally brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the