Lieutenant-Colonel John Donald Hamill Stewart of the 11th HussarsStewart photographed when Colonel o

Lieutenant-Colonel John Donald Hamill Stewart of the 11th Hussars
Stewart photographed when Colonel of the 11th Hussars.

Lt-Col. Stewart accompanied General Charles Gordon to Khartoum during the Sudan crises in 1884. Gordon was in charge of the task of evacuating all British and European personnel from the Sudanese capital in the face of the Mahdist uprising.

During the subsequent siege of the Khartoum by the Mahdist forces Col. Stewart lead a group aboard a steamer in fleeing the city. The steamer was to hit rocks and become grounded and all aboard were massacred.