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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon GIROUARD, Edouard Percy Cranwill Born: 1867 01 26 Died: 1932 09 26 Military Engineer Born in Montreal, Cananda, son by the second wife Essie Cranwill, of the judge Désiré Girouard. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston and commissioned in the ROYAL ENGINEERS in 1888. He impressed Kitchener as a brilliant young Railways Engineer, and in 1899 at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, was transferred to South Africa where he was charged with the command of the IMPERIAL MILITARY RAILWAYS (IMR). With the signing of the peace and formation of the CENTRAL SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS in 1902 Milner appointed him commissioner of this newly created civil authority. However he was to resign in disgrace and political storm in 1904, a victim of his administrative failings and Milner's bowing to political pressure. He became director of the armaments firm, Armstrong Whitworth between 1912 and 1914, and again in 1917. In 1915 he was director-general of munitions in the war office. He died in London, England. See DSAB 1 for extended biography. Books citing GIROUARD Anonymous [Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaanse Spoorwegmaatschappij]. [c.1909]. In Memoriam N.Z.A.S.M. Amsterdam: JH De Bussy. pp 141 De Jong, RC, Van der Waal, GM. 1988. NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Pretoria: C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council. pp 233 HSRC. 1968. Dictionary of South African Biography Volume I. Cape Town: Tafelberg for The Human Sciences Research Council. pp 310-311