I am enclosing a brief item concerning the dress of "The Forty." I don't know if I have any information on the Egyptian Infantry Uniform worn under the Khedive Ismail: 1863-1879 if I recall correctly. During the early 1880s it was a white jacket, trousers and leggings, red fez, black tassel, belt, shoes, brass buckle and buttons.

I would heartily like to echo the remark's of Mr. Seliga in issue 113 concerning the Foundry RugaRuga figures.

Sir Samuel Baker's troops, infantry, came from two regiments of the Khedive of Egypt. One was Egyptian and the other was Sudanese. From these he picked out a bodyguard, chiefly of Sudanese, who came to be called The Forty Thieves; The Forty publicly. Of their dress, Baker writes :

I distinguished "The Forty" from the line regiment by a scarlet uniform; this was a simple red flannel shirt, worn outside their Zouave trousers, and secured by a belt, with ammunition- pouches, round the waist. This uniform, with linen gaiters, and with a headdress of the scarlet fez, bound by a turban of cobalt blue, looked remarkable well.

Source: Baker, Samuel W. Ismailia, A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Supression of the Slave Trade. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1875. p. 163.