Sirdar
Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army in the 19th-20th centuries
The rank of Sirdar (Arabic: سردار), a variant of Sardar, was assigned to the British Commander-in-Chief of the British-controlled Egyptian Army in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Sirdar resided at the Sirdaria, a three-block-long property in Zamalek which was also the home of British military intelligence in Egypt.
01List of officeholders
| No. | Portrait | Name (birth-death) |
Term of office | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | Wood, EvelynSir Evelyn Wood (1838-1919) | 21 December 1882 | 31 March 1885 | 2 years, 100 days | ||
| 2 | Grenfell, FrancisLord Grenfell (1841-1925) | 19 April 1886 | 12 April 1892 | 5 years, 359 days | ||
| 3 | Kitchener, HerbertLord Kitchener (1850-1916) | 13 April 1892 | 1899 | 6-7 years | ||
| 4 | Wingate, ReginaldSir Reginald Wingate (1861-1953) | 1899 | 1916 | 16-17 years | , | |
| 5 | Stack, LeeSir Lee Stack (1868-1924) | 1916 | 20 November 1924 † | 7-8 years | , | |
| 6 | Spinks, CharltonSir Charlton Spinks (1877-1959) | November 1924 | 12 January 1937 | 12 years, 2 months | , | |
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