Alfred Leete is best known for his portrait of Lord Kitchener in the famous "Your Country Needs You" poster that encouraged so many young men to volunteer to fight in the Great War (1914 - 1918).

These spent bullets and cartridge cases come from an isolated desert battlefield in Northern Sudan where in 1898 the Mahdist Sudanese forces engaged with Gen. Kitchener's column before the battle ...

News; History; Armed Forces; Potteries soldier took on 52,000 Mahdist warriors at the Battle of Omdurman Private Joseph Hopwood had been a Victorian soldier and a veteran of the Battle of Omdurman ...

Alfred Leete is best known for his portrait of Lord Kitchener in the famous "Your Country Needs You" poster that encouraged so many young men to volunteer to fight in the Great War (1914 - 1918).

Private Joseph Hopwood had been a Victorian soldier and a veteran of the Battle of Omdurman and the Boer War, before he was invited to rejoin his regiment and fight in the Great War... The Dervish ...