Edward Woodgate

Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate KCMG CB (1 November 1845 – 23 March 1900) was an infantry officer in the British Army.

[2] He had only held the Leicester-command four months, when after the outbreak of the Second Boer War he was appointed in command of the 11th brigade of the 5th Division.

At the Battle of Spion Kop he commanded a large force that was sent to capture the strategic hill in a night assault on 23 January 1900.

[6] Woodgate's will was proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice on 30 June 1900, by his two executors, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Barry Barnett of 32 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London and George Nicholas Hardinge of 17 Lower Berkeley Street, London.

His home address was given as United Services Club, Pall Mall, London[7] "WOODGATE Edward R.P.

Monument to Edward Woodgate at Spion Kop
Medieval churchyard cross in Belbroughton churchyard, Worcestershire, restored as a monument to Woodgate