Wood, Evelyn, 1838-1919

LC control no.	no2004040901
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wood, Evelyn, 1838-1919 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wood, Henry Evelyn, 1838-1919
Birth date	1838-02-09
Death date	1919-12-02
Place of birth	Essex (England)
Place of death	Harlow (England)
Affiliation	Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Army
Profession or occupation	Great Britain. Army--Officers
Found in	Mortlake collection of English life and letters, 1591-1963 (Evelyn Wood) OCLC, Apr. 9, 2004 (hdgs.: Wood, Evelyn, Sir, 1838-1919; Wood, Henry Evelyn, Sir, 1838-1919; usage: Sir Evelyn Wood) Wikipedia, September 18, 2018 (Evelyn Wood (British Army officer); Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, GCB, GCMG; born 9 February 1838 in Cressing, Essex; died 2 December 1919 in Harlow, Essex; British Army officer; after an early career in the Royal Navy (1854-1855), Wood joined the British Army in 1855 (he reired in 1905); he served in several major conflicts including the Indian Mutiny where, as a lieutenant, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing a local merchant from a band of robbers who had taken him captive into the jungle, where they intended to hang him; Wood further served as a commander in several other conflicts, notably the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, the Anglo-Zulu War, the First Boer War and the Mahdist War; his service in Egypt led to his appointment as Sirdar where he reorganised the Egyptian Army; he returned to Britain to serve as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Aldershot Command from 1889, as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1893 and as Adjutant General from 1897; his last appointment was as commander of 2nd Army Corps (later renamed Southern Command) from 1901 to 1904)
Associated language	eng