Edmund Barttelot

Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (born March 28, 1859 in Sussex , England , † July 19, 1888 near Jambuja , Central Africa , shot) was a British officer and Stanley's companion in Africa .

Edmund Barttelot, 1887

Barttelot joined the British Army in the 7th Royal Fusilier Regiment in 1879 and served in the Indian Army . He took part in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Sudan and later joined the Egyptian army as a major .

In 1887 he joined the Stanley expedition , which tried to reach the Egyptian Equatorial Province from central Congo and Aruwimi in order to support or free Emin Pasha . When Stanley set out from Yambuya am Aruwimi on June 28, 1887 , Barttelot stayed behind as commander of the rearguard . A whole year passed without the porters promised by Tippu-Tip arriving. On June 11, 1888, Barttelot was finally able to begin the advance into the jungle. However, the discontent among the crew had already spread to such an extent that on July 19 he was shot from behind by one of the porters in the Banalja camp.

Stanley later accused Bartellot and his subordinate officers of cruelty to the crew and blamed them for the failure. In contrast, there was a description of Barttelot's brother, Walter George Barttelot, who edited the diaries of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot. In it he made some acidic comments about Stanley's behavior during this expedition.

Works

• Stanley's rearguard in Yambuya under Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot: with the diaries and letters of the murdered Major Barttelot . Hamburg, 1891 (original title: The life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot . London, 1890)