Major-General Sir E.P.C. Girouard Memorial Plaque

A plaque unveiled in 1951 to honour Major-General Sir E.P.C. Girouard, KCMG, DSO, as a Military Engineer and builder of railways in Africa. A Royal Military College graduate in the class of 1886, he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers and was appointed the Director of Railways in the Egyptian Army. He became President of the Egyptian State Railways, subsequently Director of Railways to the British Forces in South Africa, Commissioner of Railways, South Africa, High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Nigeria, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief, East Africa Protectorate. (Also refer to memorial number 35036-023)