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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 152

Documents
Egypt
British Agency, Cairo
1907 (27 October) autograph letter on War Office Egyptian Army letterhead from Reginald Wingate where he writes, " ... Watson Pasha has conveyed to me Your Highness's most gracious message of sympathy in the slight accident which has happened to my knee" and is signed, "Reginald Wingate Sirdar". With the original "O.H.M.S." envelope to Ras el Tin Palace, Alexandria, with a futher signature; vertical folding crease. Photo

General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet (1861-1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. As director of military intelligence he served in the campaigns of 1896–1898 which resulted in the reconquest of the Sudan. In 1917, Wingate succeeded Sir Henry McMahon as High Commissioner in Egypt, a post he held until 1919. He was not a successful administrator in the very different political climate in that country.

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