Anglo-Egyptian War: Difference between revisions

During the buildup to the [[Battle of Tell El Kebir|battle at Tell El Kebir]] the specially raised 8th Railway Company RE operated trains carrying stores and troops, as well as repairing track. On the day of the battle (13 September) they ran a train into [[Tell El Kebir]] station between 8 and 9&nbsp;am and "found it completely blocked with trains, full of the enemy's ammunition: the line strewn with dead and wounded, and our own soldiers swarming over the place almost mad for want of water" (extract from Captain [[Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer)|Sidney Smith]]'s diary). Once the station was cleared they began to ferry the wounded, prisoners and troops with stores to other destinations.<ref name=porter>{{cite book|last=Porter|first=Whitworth|author-link=Whitworth Porter|title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Vol. II|year=1889|publisher=[[Longmans, Green and Co.]]|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/historycorpsroy00watsgoog}}</ref>