NAM.2000-09-69-3

Typescript letter in French, 21 Apr 1901. Relating to the Turkish Order of the Mejidie, 2nd Class, from the Ministry of the Interior, Cairo, 21 Apr 1901, to Col Thomas James Kelly (1833-1901), Egyptian Police. Kelly rose from the ranks in the British Army retiring from 40th Regiment with the Honorary rank of Major in 1881. In 1883 he joined the Egyptian Police from which he retired as Colonel Kelly Bey in 1901.