Bourke described him as ``a fair, rather good-looking, slim man'' who was shabbily dressed in ``an undress general's uniform with a large sword clanking by his side'' and thin old button boots ``which were rather trying to his poor feet on the rocks.'' A few months later, after his capture, Kirkham was seen by the former Confederate General William Loring, who had taken service with the Egyptians, and described as ``utterly used up by disease and dissipation'', wearing an ancient and much-patched British military uniform, and being very indignant that his nationality and British passport were being ignored.
Kirkham
William Loring