Picture No | 10700858 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Tatler cover, Death of Lord Kitchener, WW1 |
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Tatler front cover announcing the death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. 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 (which hit a German mine off Orkney) on 5 June 1916.
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Source | Front cover of The Tatler, 14 June 1916 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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