vast swampland of the Sudd would open the south of Sudan to navigation, drain the swamps to create agricultural land and by reducing loss through evaporation would increase water available further downstream in north Sudan and Egypt. In 1922 Woodland was appointed to the 3rd Class of the Order of the Nile by the King of Egypt. Woodland left office on 6 October 1924. References 1879 births 1933 deaths British colonial governors and administrators in Africa Anglo-Egyptian Sudan people People from Warbleton Sudan Political Service officers