Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Secretary of State for War

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and Broome (1850-1916), British soldier and stateman. After a successful career in the Sudan, South Africa and India, he was appointed field marshal and Secretary for War on 7 August 1914, and recruited a great army (the Kitchener armies') for World War I before he was lost with HMS Hampshire (mined off Orkney) on 5 June 1916. It was Kitchener's image that stared out from the famous Your Country Needs You recruitment posters of World War I

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Appointed Broome Horatio Khartoum Kitchener Mined Orkney Recruited Stared Stateman Sudan

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