Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
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Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
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Born 24 June 1850 · Died 5 June 1916 · Q216129
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2001· 1 entry
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
It was revealed that Lady Astor's son Robert Gould Shaw III told David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort that Kitchener had been his first seducer
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1926· 1 entry
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A hoaxer named Frank Power claimed in the Sunday Referee newspaper that Kitchener's body had been found by a Norwegian fisherman
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1925· 1 entry
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The original house was demolished and in 2001 replaced by a hotel owned by the Oberoi Group
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1916· 5 entries
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Died 1916-06-05.
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(near Liverpool Street station), perhaps one of the first memorials of the First World War in England
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And joined Kitchener in Scotland
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And would have preferred smaller and purely attritional attacks, but sided with Robertson in telling the Cabinet that the planned Anglo-French offensive on the Somme should go ahead
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Kitchener visited Douglas Haig, newly appointed commander-in-chief of the BEF in France
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1915· 1 entry
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“the most disastrous event in the history of the empire”
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1914· 3 entries
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At the start of the First World War, Kitchener became secretary of state for war, a cabinet minister
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And 1915, providing a force capable of meeting Britain's continental commitment
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for War (1914–1916).
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1909· 1 entry
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That he had the "failing acquired by most of the Egyptian officers, a taste for buggery"
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1905· 1 entry
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To honour the Prince and Princess of Wales's visit to India
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1898· 1 entry
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For having won the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, for which he was made Baron Kitchener of Khartoum
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1896· 1 entry
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The British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, was concerned with keeping France out of the Horn of Africa
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1892· 1 entry
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Gathered around him a cadre of eager young and unmarried officers nicknamed "Kitchener's band of boys", who included Captain Oswald Fitzgerald, his aide-de-camp and "constant and inseparable companion", who died with
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1890· 1 entry
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A War Office evaluation of Kitchener concluded: "A good brigadier, very ambitious, not popular, but has of late greatly improved in tact and manner
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1884· 1 entry
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That: "I have become such a solitary bird that I often think I were happier alone"
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1883· 1 entry
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In the Italian-speaking La Concordia Lodge No
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1878· 1 entry
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Having completed the survey of western Palestine, Kitchener was sent to Cyprus to undertake a survey of that newly acquired British protectorate
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1875· 1 entry
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After an attack by locals at Safed, in Galilee
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1874· 1 entry
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Aged 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land, replacing Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake, who had died of malaria
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1870· 1 entry
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Studied at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (1870).
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1864· 1 entry
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The family moved to Switzerland, where the young Kitchener was educated at Montreux, then at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
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1850· 1 entry
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Born 1850-06-24.
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