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Godfrey Douglas Giles

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Having attained the rank of Major, Godfrey Douglas Giles retired from the army in 1884 and went to Paris in 1885 where he studied under
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on 1 March 1884, and began painting a scene of the battle when he returned to Cairo shortly after the event. He was also present at the
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which was exhibited in 1893. It was drawn from details supplied by RSM Paton and Sergeant Mullane, VC who had been with the battery.
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where he was able to depict horses and horse-racing scenes. His illustrations also appeared in the weekly
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He accompanied the Gordon Relief Expedition to Sudan and commanded Turkish cavalry at
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in South Africa in 1899, Giles was sent there as war correspondent and artist by
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After the Battle of Atbara. The Emir Mamoud brought prisoner to Sir H. Kitchener
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A Troop of the 10th Hussars racing the Boers for a kopje above the Modder River
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British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914
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who was stationed at Karachi. Godfrey Douglas Giles was a boarding boy at
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and South Africa. He produced numerous caricatures for the magazine
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This painting and several sketches by Giles were reproduced in the
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An Incident at the Battle of Tamai, Eastern Soudan, March 13, 1884
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fronts, and according to one obituary notice, had been present at
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Giles died at the age of 83 in Edinburgh on 1 February 1941.
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1st Cavalry Brigade. He witnessed the surrender of General
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and the 19th Native Infantry, chiefly on the Khleat and
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Norman Ramsay's Guns at Fuentes De Onoro, 5 May 1811
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Karachi
Afghanistan
Egypt
Vanity Fair
Royal Navy
Cheltenham
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Second Afghan War
Sind Horse
Kandahar
Maiwand
Royal Horse Artillery
Maiwand

El Teb
The Graphic
battle of Tamai
Victoria Cross
Loyal Suffolk Hussars
Artists' Rifle Corps
Carolus-Duran
Battle of Tamai
El Teb
Paris Salon
Royal Academy
Newmarket
Black & White Budget
Boer War
The Graphic
Daily Graphic

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