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Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small paddle wheel gunboat, appeared off the Egyptian shore. A rowing boat was lowered down its side and slowly moved towards the beach. On its arrival, six men and a teenage boy alighted. Three of the group were British, all dressed as Arabs, two were Bedouin tribesmen, one a Jew and one a Syrian. The following morning, this mismatched party set off for the desert, taking with them two boxes of dynamite and £3,000 in gold coin. Five of them were never seen again.
My book ‘These Chivalrous Brothers. The Mysterious Disappearance of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition’ is to be published on January 29th.The book recounts for the first time the story of the Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause célèbre of the nineteenth century. The ‘murderers’ were brought to justice by Charles Warren and the book shows how Warren covered up what really happened. It will thus be of interest to those who believe Warren was also involved in the cover-up of the Ripper murders. Further information can be found at:
My book ‘These Chivalrous Brothers. The Mysterious Disappearance of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition’ is to be published on January 29th.The book recounts for the first time the story of the Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause célèbre of the nineteenth century. The ‘murderers’ were brought to justice by Charles Warren and the book shows how Warren covered up what really happened. It will thus be of interest to those who believe Warren was also involved in the cover-up of the Ripper murders. Further information can be found at:
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