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Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Field Marshal and colonial administrator who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway through it. Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of ...
Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1914 for the famous officer Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum. [1] [kt 1] He had already been created Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1898 ...
Percy was killed in action on 15th September 1914. Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, O.M. [Order of Merit], K.P [Knight of St Patrick], G.C.B. [Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath] was born in 1850 and served in the army in Egypt and the Sudan 1882-99 and was Sirdar of the Egyptian army (Commander in Chief).
Field Marshal Kitchener was the epitome of the imperialist military general, who commanded the British army in Egypt, the Sudan, India and in South Africa during the Boer War (1899-1902). As Secretary of State for War from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he converted the small British army into a military machine of three million men and his image was used for the iconic army ...
May 18, 2018 · Horatio Herbert Kitchener Kitchener, 1st Earl (kĬch´ənər, kĬch´nər), 1850–1916, British field marshal and statesman. Trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1868–70), he had a brief period of service in the French army before being commissioned (1871) in the Royal Engineers.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, was an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman who served as a colonial administrator during his early career and later played a significant role in the early parts of the First World War. He first gained recognition after avenging the murder of Charles George Gordon at the Battle of ...
Nov 7, 2014 · Horatio Herbert Kitchener embodied the British war effort, and his now-forgotten death is a salutary tale about the fate of heroes. ... 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum’ (1890) ... Video; Podcasts ...
