Images from Egypt,The Sudan, The Middle-East, the Mediterranean and East Africa
Cabinet Photographs - Egypt & the Sudan
George Merhige
Anglo-Egyptian
Army
c.1896-1899
European Pasha
Egyptian Army
c. 1880
James Thompson Hague
Medical Officer
to the
Sultan of Zanzibar
c. 1880
Carte de Visites - Egypt & the Sudan
Unidentified
Private
Egypt
c. 1882
Staff Sergeant
Egypt/Sudan
1884-5
Private George Capper
Royal Marine Light Infantry
c. 1880
Other Middle-Eastern/Mediterranean Locations
Chief Stoker
Royal Navy
Malta
Post 1900
Lieutenant Rudolph
Edward Lisle March
Phillips de Lisle,
HMS
Alexandra

Killed at Abu Klea
1885.
Artlleryman
Royal Artillery
Gibraltar
c. 1890's
Royal Artillery
Private
Aden
c. 1880's-90's
Sergeant
2nd Battalion
Rifle Brigade
Crete
1898
"Why worry? Be a coward and be happy."
                                                                                                           from the 1939 film version of "The Four Feathers
Captain
2nd Battalion,
Shropshire Light
Infantry
Gibraltar
c. 1880's
Charles George
Gordon
Governor General
of the Sudan
Khartoum
c. 1879
NCO
King's African Rifles
c.1905
Unidentified Officer
1st Battalion The
Berkshire Regiment
c. 1885
Intelligence Department.

He took part in several engagements and received a Mention in Despatches from General Graham (30 May, 1885). Most notably Brewster entered Dervish camp
alone prior to a planned attack on Saukin and convinced a large number of the enemy to come over to the British side. These same men later served in the
capture of Tamai.

Brewster remained Director of Customs for Saukin until 1890 when he transferred to the Coastguard Service as Secretary and Controller. He was chosen as
Private Secretary by both Khedive Mohammed Tewfik and Abbas II.

He had a brother T. A. Brewster who was the publisher of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser, Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, South Africa.
Alfred Berry Brewster was born in
London on 7 November, 1856.

Brewster Bey entered Egyptian Service
in 1877 in the Customs Administration
and Coastguard Service. In 1879 he
was appointed to the position of
Director of Customs at Suakin by
General Gordon. He served in the
Commissariat staff during the
Egyptian Campaign and was awarded
the Egypt Medal w/Clasp as well as the
Khedive's Star. He returned to Suakin
and 1883 did duty in Valentine Baker
Pasha's Intelligence Department
(1884).

In 1885 he served under General
Graham at Suakin as Chief
Interpreter and Secretary to the
Alfred Berry Brewster, Director of
Customs, Suakin. in Egyptian
uniform.

Cabinet Photo
Alexandria, Egypt
August, 1891
Alfred Brewster
Alexandria, Egypt
11 July, 1877
Alfred Brewster
Shanklin, Isle of
Wight England
26 August, 1886
Marie Cecile Brewster?
Alexandria, Egypt
c. 1886
Brewster was married to Marie Cecile in 1886 and had at least one child, a
daughter named Adele Cecile who married Felix Edmund Powell on 11 July
1911. Her marriage was short with her dying in Alexandria in 1913. Brewster
was still alive in 1907 when his biography was published in
The Anglo-African
Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook
.