N° d'objet
5911.7
Description
A pyramidal menu card, with pictures of Gordon and Kitchener inset. It is from the banquet given to Kitchener on his
return from the Abyssinian campaign of 1898, held in the RE Mess.
On the first face of the pyramid, printed in sepia, is the full menu surrounded by a tribal warrior on the left and an ethnic hemi-spherical drum. Over the printed menu is a dagger. On the second face is the programme of music. On the right hand bottom of the triangle is the image of a soldier on a camel, with a gun..
Over the programme are two intertwined flags and spears.
On the third face are two portraits of Gordon and Kitchener, with the word "Khartoum" printed between them, and the words "Brompton Barracks, Chatham, 8th November 1898"
Date
1898-11-08 - 1898-11-08
Dimensions