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‘. Consider that the meritorious services of the Sergeant / Instructors attached to the Egyptian Army have been inadequately / acknowledged. To the excellence of their work is mainly due the / great improvement that has taken place in the soldiers of H. H. the / Khedive. ' / _Extract from letter._
Said England unto Pharaoh, ‘I must make a man of you, / That will stand upon his feet and play the game; / That will Maxim his oppressor as a Christian ought to do,' / And she sent old Pharaoh Sergeant Whatisname. / It was not a Duke nor Earl, nor yet a _Vis_count -- / It was not a big brass General that came; / But a man in khaki kit who could handle men a bit, / With his bedding labelled Sergeant Whatisname.