| Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Egyptian Army | |
|---|---|
| Sirdar | |
| Residence | Sirdaria |
| Formation | 21 December 1882 |
| First holder | Sir Evelyn Wood |
| Final holder | Sir Charlton Spinks |
| Abolished | 12 January 1937 |
| Superseded by | Chief of the General Staff |
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.1 The Sirdar resided at the Sirdaria, a three-block-long property in Zamalek which was also the home of British military intelligence in Egypt.2
List 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 | 3 |
| 2 |  | Grenfell, FrancisLord Grenfell (1841–1925) | 19 April 1886 | 12 April 1892 | 5 years, 359 days | 45 |
| 3 |  | Kitchener, HerbertLord Kitchener (1850–1916) | 13 April 1892 | 1899 | 6–7 years | 6 |
| 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 | – |
References
References
- "Sirdar". Merriam Webster. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
- Raafat, Samir (2001-02-15). "The Sirdaria". Cairo Times. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
- Wood, Evelyn (1907). From Midshipman to Field Marshal (5th ed.). London: Methuen. pp. xii, 500. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- Lord Grenfell, Memoirs of Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell PC, GCB, GCMG p.90.
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