A 1900 press portrait of English soldier Sir Henry Colvile. ------- Major-General Sir Henry Edward Colvile, KCMG, CB (1852 – 1907) was a Grenadier Guard in 1870. He was appointed to General Sir Leicester Smyth, commanding forces in South Africa, in 1880 as well as serving in the Intelligence Department of the Suakin Expedition of 1884. He fought at the Battles of El Teb and Tamai and was also employed on special service in the Sudan prior to the Nile Expedition of 1884-85.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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