Battle of Omdurman, 1898

I spent a good few hours going through some inherited paperwork today, including an album of old military photographs. They date from 1898 to about 1918, and are quite extraordinary.

I don't know what or who has any relation to me, or what to do with them, really, but I'm sure they have some historical significance.

This blip is the bleakest page of all. It shows dead bodies on the battlefield after the battle of Omdurman, in Sudan, in 1898.

From Wiki, 'Around 10,000 Mahdists were killed, 13,000 wounded and 5,000 taken prisoner. Kitchener's force lost 47 men killed and 382 wounded'

The British had machine-guns.