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Letter from Maj Gen Sir Gerald Graham VC to Sir John Cowell, Cairo 12 Nov 1882. I’m CO Cairo. Insuffucient recognition for the RE from Wolseley? I got Wolseley to write a special report to the C in C that I ordered Drury Lowe to charge at Kassassin, not that I sent a message I was only just able to hold my own. Egyptians were already in retreat. From the archive of Maj Gen Sir John Cowell, 1854-1893. Cowell served with the Royal Engineers in the Baltic in 1854 and in the Crimea in 1855. As Master of the Queen’s Household from 1866 until his death in 1894, Cowell acted as military gatekeeper to Queen Victoria and was the man to whom Victorian generals wrote if they wished their views to be communicated to the monarch. Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856), 1st Sudan War (1884-1885), the Egyptian War (1882), the Sekukuni Campaign (1878-1879) and the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1881).

Kassassin, Battle of, 1882 (Egyptian War 1882)