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Major-General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack was a British Army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On 19 November 1924, he was shot by assassins while driving through Cairo, a
Stack in c. 1924
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War, in which he led t
Lee Stack
…to Egypt. Major-General Stack suffered wounds to the hand, stomach, and foot. He died the next day. The British High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, responded with anger, presenting a list of demands to the Egyptian government which included a public apology, an inquiry, suppression of demonstrations…
Allenby in 1917
Allenby (centre), together with General Sir Herbert Plumer (left) and General Sir Henry Horne in conference at Camblain-Chatelain, France, 1916.
Allenby and King Albert I of Belgium.
Drawing of Allenby from journal "The War" c. 1917