Obituary of Milhem Shakoor Bey

This piece is taken from the Egyptian Gazette. The name of the newspaper is written by hand along the top of the cutting, along with the date of June 6th. The cutting has been pasted into the Memoir of Mansoor Shakoor (see previous post).

The death occurred yesterday in Cairo of Melhim Bey Shakkour [sic], the prominent Syrian pioneer of the Sudan.
Shakkour Bey spent the best time of his life in the Sudan Service, accompanying many campaigns and often exposing his life to danger. Stopping one time to give a dervish water on the battlefield, Milhem Bey was brought to himself by a great shout from one of the officers. Turning round he saw that a dervish was aiming his rifle to shoot him down. The Bey commanded his servant to remove the rifle and give the dying man a drink.
Shakkour Bey was 61 years old, but he was young looking. He was a universal favourite with old and young, rich and poor.

You'll notice that either the author of the obituary could not make up his mind how to spell 'Milhem' or else the first spelling ('Melhim') is a typo. The term 'Bey' was a title given to senior officers in the time of the ottoman empire. The correct usage is to place it after the name , as it is used in the second paragraph. Apparently in modern Turkey it is a form of address corresponding to 'Mr.'

The date of his death must have been after 1896 as the portrait was painted in that year (again, see earlier post).