Wingate
SIR (FRANCIS) REG- INALD, a British general, born at Broadfield, Renfrewshire, in 1861. He was educated at St. James' Collegiate School, Jersey, and of Woolwich. He became a lieutenant in 1880, served in India and Aden 1881-1888 , joined the Egyptian army and acted as military secretary to Sir Evelyn Wood during the Nile Expedition. He became colonel in 1899 and major-general in 1903. He was Sirdar of the Egyptian army and Governor- General of the Sudan, 1899 to 1916. He organized numerous expeditions against the Egyptians who sought the overthrow of the British power in their country, and partook in the reconquest of the province of Darfur in 1916. He acted as High Commissioner in Egypt in 1917.
He wrote: "Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan"; "Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp"; and translated Slatin Pasha's "Fire and Sword in the Sudan."