SIR JOHN CHARLES ARDAGH

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

SHORT BIO: Sir John Charles Ardagh was born in August, 184o, and entered the Royal Engineers in 1859. Having passed through the Staff College he was appointed in 1876 Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General of the Intelligence Branch, and until the end of i8Si was employed either at Head-quarters or on special service in Turkey. When not campaigning Sir John Ardagh was usually to be found either in Pall Mall or at the School of Military Engineering, at Chatham, one pleasant interval of five years being spent in India as Private Secretary to the Viceroy. In that capacity it is possible for a man of parts to learn much of thrilling interest and abiding value, for the Indian Viceroy's Private Secretary is necessarily brought into the closest touch with many movements of quite extraordinary significance. Nothing of what passes in India during his term of office need be hidden from him, and his position is one which calls constantly for the exercise of unremitting industry and nearly sublime tact. As a matter of almost, prescriptive right the ex-Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India receives a knighthood for his services, and Sir John Ardagh's K.C.I.E. is a happy and well-earned acknowledgment of the period from 1889 to 1894 which he gave up to this important and highly coveted appointment. But Sir John Ardagh is no carpet knight. In the Egyptian Expedition of 1882-84, he came distinctly to the front, being present at the operations at Alexandria and the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, while in the Soudan in 1884 he was Commanding Royal Engineer and chief of the Intelligence Department, and took part in the battles of Teb and Tamai. In the Nile Expedition of 1884-85 he was Base Commandant at Cairo, and he also served in the Soudan with the Frontier Field Force in 1885-86 as Assistant Adjutant-General. In all three campaigns he was mentioned in Despatches and for " Egypt, 1882 " received the C.B. In 1895 General Ardagh was appointed Commandant of the School of Military Engineering, which he left in 1896 to become Director of Military Intelligence. Last year he attended as a British delegate the Peace Conference at the Hague.

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