Kitchener of Khartoum in United Kingdom

History of the Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916)

The following commentary about Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) in the Churchill Era is produced by the Churchill College (Cambridge): Secretary of State for War (in charge of the War Office, and with responsibility for the army and military issues) from August 1914.

Entering the Royal Engineers in 1871, Horatio Herbert Kitchener rose to become one of the Empire’s most famous soldiers. He was made Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Egypt from 1892-1898 (defeating the Dervishes in the battle of Omdurman, and also meeting Winston Churchill, who was fighting as a junior officer), and took on this role again in South Africa, 1900-1902 and in India, 1902-1909. He then became Consul-General in Egypt from 1911-1914, returning as Secretary of State for War from the outbreak of the First World War until his death by drowning in June 1916.