biography
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Kitchener (of Khartoum and of Broome), (Horatio) Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl
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| (1850–1916)
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| biography:
| British field marshal, born near Ballylongford, Co Kerry, SW Ireland. He joined the Royal Engineers in 1871, and served in Palestine (1874), Cyprus (1878), and the Sudan (1883). By the final rout of the Khalifa at Omdurman (1898), he won back the Sudan for Egypt, and was made a peer. Successively chief-of-staff and commander-in-chief in South Africa (1900–2), he brought the Boer War to an end, and was made viscount. He then became commander-in-chief in India (1902–9), consul-general in Egypt (1911), and secretary for war (1914), for which he organized manpower on a vast scale (‘Kitchener armies’). He was lost with HMS Hampshire, mined off the Orkney Is. |
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