BRITISH SOLDIER DEAD
GENERAL SIR J. MAXWELL British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. General Sir John Maxwell has died at Capetown from pneumonia. He commanded the British forces in Egypt for the first two years of the Great War, and was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the troublous days of 1916. General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell was born in 1859 and after leaving Cheltenham College joined the 42nd Highlanders. He served in the Egyptian War of 1S82 ; on the Nile, 1884-5, and commanded a brigade in the Boer War. He was Military Governor of Pretoria, 1900-1. He was appointed Commander in Egypt, 1908-12, and again in 1914-15. He was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland in 1916, and of the Northern Command, 1916-19. He was a member of the late Viscount Milner’s Mission to Egypt in 1920. He retired in 1922.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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