Background
GIROUARD, Edouard Percy Cranwill was born on January 26, 1867 in Montreal. Son of Honourable Desire Girouard.
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Detailed history of the use and importance of railways during the war in South Africa (the Boer War), written by Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Gerouard, Director of Railways for the British South African Field Force. With chapters on the creation and control of a military railway staff, the Cape Government Railway, the Natal Railway, all facets of the Imperial Military Railways (construction, organisation by region, locomotives, railway telegraph, stores and accounts, etc.), and the use of armored trains. There are two oversized foldout photos, one showing Army camps with a destroyed bridge and the other a long, untouched bridge. With numerous tables and charts as well as fold-out maps and appendices. 149 pages with index. Extremely scarce.
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GIROUARD, Edouard Percy Cranwill was born on January 26, 1867 in Montreal. Son of Honourable Desire Girouard.
Studied at Royal Military College, Kingston.
Entered army, 18S8; Major, 1899. Served Dongola Expeditionary Force, 1896 (despatches, brevet of Major, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, British medal, Khedive’s medal with two clasps). Nile Expedition, 1897 (despatches, clasp).
Railway traffic manager, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1890-1895.
Director of Soudan railways, 1896-1898. President of Egyptian Railway Board, 1898-1899 (2nd class Medjidie).
Director of Railways, South Africa, 1899-1902 (despatches). Commissioner of Railways, Transvaal and Orange River Colony, 1902-1904.
Assistant-Quartermaster-General Western command, Chester, 1906.
High Commissioner of Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, 1907-1908. Governor of Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, 1908-1909. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order 1896.
R.E.; GovernorandComraander-in-Chief of the East Africa Protectorate since 1909.
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Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. Clubs: Army and Navy, Brooks’s, Reform.
Spouse 1903, Mary Gwendolen, o.daughter of Honourable Sir Richard Solomon.