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| | Lieutenant-Colonel Baker Russell |
 | | On one occasion we arrived wet and weary at a camp-ground where the commissariat officer of the district was supposed to have arranged to have a camp all ready pitched for us, with rations and forage prepared also. |
| | The Colonel was not slow to make capital of this, and he telegraphed to the General of the district expressing his opinion of the want of organization in the place, and in alluding to the hardships which men and horses were suffering he pointed out that already one man was dead of exposure. |
| | Served in the Egyptian War of 1882, first as A.A.G. for Cavalry and afterwards in command of a Brigade of Cavalry; present at El Magfar and Tel-el-Mahuta, the two actions at Kassassin, the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and the capture of Cairo (mentioned in dispatches K.C.B., medal with clasp, 2nd class of Medjidie, and Khedive's star). |
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