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Picture No 10731562
Date 2nd June 1916
Description Kitchener as war minister: one of his last public acts, 1916
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and Broome (1850-1916), going to face his critics as war minister: leaving the war office on 2nd June 1916, for his meeting with (about two hundred) Menbers of Parliament desirous of information it was not in the public interest to discuss publicly in the House of Commons. Within a few hours of the unprecedented gathering, he had left London, with his personal staff, and was on his way to take ship for Russia on board the cruiser 'Hampshire'. General Sir William Robertson (1860-1933) walking behind.
Source Orignal photograph by Farringdon in ‘The Illustrated War News’, 14 June 1916, page 19
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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