Egypt Command was a British military command. By the mid-1930s and throughout the Second World War the command's title had become British Troops in Egypt.
The command was established in the late 19th century after the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. The British Army remained in Egypt throughout the First World War and, after the War, remained there to protect the Suez Canal. Following Egypt's independence in 1922, the United Kingdom and Egypt entered into a treaty in 1936 whereby British troops remained to protect the canal and to train the Egyptian Army. After the Second World War anti-British resentment escalated and there was rioting in the streets in February 1946. British troops left Egypt in June 1956 shortly before the Suez Crisis.
Commanders
Commanders were as follows:
1899–1903 Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot
1903–1905 Major-General John Slade
1905–1908 Major-General George Bullock
1908–1912 Major-General Sir John Maxwell
1912–1914 Major-General Julian Byng
1914–1915 Lieutenant-General Sir John Maxwell
1915–1916 General Sir Charles Monro
1916–1917 Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray
1917–1919 Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby
1919–1923 Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Congreve
1923–1927 General Sir Richard Haking
1927–1931 General Sir Peter Strickland
1931–1934 General Sir John Burnett-Stuart
1934–1938 General Sir George Weir
1938–1939 Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson
1939–1941 Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
1941–1941 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard O'Connor
1941–1941 Lieutenant-General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall
1941–1942 Lieutenant-General William Holmes
1942–1944 Lieutenant-General Robert Stone
1944–1948 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Allfrey
1948–1949 Lieutenant-General Richard Gale
1949–1952 Lieutenant-General Sir George Erskine
1952–1954 Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Festing
1954–1956 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hull
