SIR EDWARD ROBERT PREVOST WOODGATE

Approximate Image Size: 7 1/2 X 10 inches Approximate Overall Size: 10 X 14 inches

SHORT BIO: Major-General Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate, K.C.M.G., C.B., was born in 1845,
and entered the old 4th " King's Own," now the Royal. Lancaster Regiment, in 1865. He
served with the regiment in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868, and was subsequently employed
on special service in the Ashanti War of 1873-4 where he distinguished himself greatly, and
was rewarded with two mentions in Dispatches. In 1877 he passed through the Staff College,
and when the South African War Of 1879 broke out he was again selected for special employ-
ment, and did excellent service as Staff Officer of the Flying Column in Zululand. He was
present both at Ulundi and Kambula, and at the close of the campaign became a brevet-major.
From 1880 to 1885 Woodgate held a staff appointment in the West Indies, and in 1893
succeeded to the command of the 1st Battalion of his regiment. In 1896 he was made a
C.B., and in 1897 he was given command of the 4th, Regimental District, Headquarters
Lancaster. In 1898, the War Office, having decided to raise a new West African Regiment
at Sierra Leone, asked Colonel Woodgate to go out and organize it. This he did, performing
the duty with very great skill and tact, and when, shortly afterwards, the natives in the
surrounding districts rebelled against the hut tax, Woodgate was ready for them, and in the
course of a few months completely suppressed the rising. For this service he was eventually
made a K.C.M.G., the Gazette in which the announcement was made only appearing about
a fortnight before he received his fatal wound.

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