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  2. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikipedia

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    Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (/ ˈ k ɪ tʃ ɪ n ər /; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, [1] [2] and his central role in the early part of the First World War.

  3. Lord Kitchener Wants You - Wikipedia

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    In 1997 the British Army created a recruiting advertisement re-using Leete's image but substituting for Kitchener's face that of a British Army non-commissioned officer of African descent. [47] Leete's image of Kitchener is featured on a 2014 £2 coin produced by sculptor John Bergdahl for the Royal Mint.

  4. Category:British field marshals of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Charles Egerton (Indian Army officer) F. ... Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener This page was last edited on 16 December 2024, at 20:56 (UTC). ...

  5. Kitchener's Army - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.. The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, as Kitchener's Mob, [a] was an (initially) all-volunteer portion of the British Army formed in the United Kingdom from 1914 onwards following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War in late July 1914.

  6. Middlesex Regiment alien labour units - Wikipedia

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    [8] [7] King separately claimed that the promise had been made by the former Secretary of State for War Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener and, to the mother of at least one man, by the British Army's director of recruiting. King feared that the men in the labour companies would be shot as traitors if captured in the field.

  7. British Army during the First World War - Wikipedia

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    In a successful preliminary operation, General Herbert Plumer's Second Army seized the Messines ridge south of Ypres. [153] The Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres), which began on 31 July 1917, was one of the harshest ordeals endured by British and Dominion troops during the war, with the battlefield reduced to a ...

  8. Battle of Omdurman - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the Mahdist State, led by Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (the Khalifa), the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad.

  9. Lord Kitchener - Wikipedia

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    Earl Kitchener, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), senior British Army officer and colonial administrator; Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener (1846–1937), brother of the 1st Earl Kitchener; Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener (1919–2011), grandson of the 2nd Earl Kitchener