Herbert Ward was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer, and explorer in Africa. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. Ward later became a sculptor and lived in France. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Ward in the Congo, c1886
Herbert Ward (left) and Roger Casement, c1886
Le Chef de Tribu, Ward's Salon gold medal-winning sculpture of 1908, in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren
Herbert Ward in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre, c1916
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, its goal was ostensibly the relief of Emin Pasha, the besieged Egyptian governor of Equatoria, who was threatened by Mahdist forces.
Henry Morton Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left: Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert Henry Nelson, Henry Morton Stanley, William Grant Stairs, and Arthur Jephson.
Emin Pasha, German-born Egyptian governor of Equatoria
The steel boat Advance as depicted in In Darkest Africa by H.M. Stanley
Le Peace