John Slade

Major-General Sir John Ramsay Slade KCB (1843-1913) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the British troops in Egypt.

Military career

Born the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Marcus Slade, Slade was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1861. After taking part in the Bazaar Valley Expedition in 1878, he commanded a battery at the Battle of Maiwand in July 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. He served as a staff officer during the First Boer War and then became military attaché in Rome in 1887. He also served as a staff officer assisting General Antonio Baldissera during the First Italo-Ethiopian War before becoming General Officer Commanding the British troops in Egypt in 1903.