Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Iron Headed War Club with Leather Wrapping Japanese Ordnance Red sighting aids date the

Red sighting aids date the compass to the late war period of 1943-1944

This garrison cap was issued to an infantry trooper as evident by the blue piping

but general troops were less enthusiastic about it and often considered it to be an annoyance

the movement being undertaken by a spring loaded pawl driven by the left-hand eccentric by way of a slide fixed in the left body wall

even though the designated ranges did not relate to the

Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Iron Headed War Club with Leather Wrapping Japanese Ordnance Red sighting aids date theOriginal Item: One of a kind. In the 1880s the SUDAN the vast land just south of Egypt was ruled by the Khedive from Cairo. Sudan was basically occupied by native Africans in the south and Arab traders in the north. The coming of the Muslim religious leader known as the "Mahdi" unified the population into an uprising against Egypt. Britain assisted and allowed General Charles Gordon to become the Governor of Sudan on behalf of the Egyptian Khedive.