Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
The use of Kitchener's image for recruiting posters was so widespread that Lady Asquith referred to the field marshal simply as "the Poster". [23] The placement of the Kitchener posters including Alfred Leete's design has been examined and questioned following an Imperial War Museum publication in 1997.
The museum focuses on global events from the causes of World War I before 1914 through the 1918 armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the exhibit space within the 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2 ) facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 red poppies , each representing 1,000 combatant deaths.
Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) the Secretary of State for War wanted work begun on a single-volume popular history, to be published soon after the war. This would maintain public interest in the main series and put the case of the government at the same time as accounts by participants and popular authors.
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, arranges artifacts on a table as photos of the 100-year-old time capsule’s recovery are ...
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army. On 6 August 1914, less than 48 hours after Britain's declaration of war, Parliament sanctioned an increase of 500,000 men for the Regular British Army, and the newly appointed Secretary of State for War, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum issued his famous call to arms: 'Your King and Country Need You', urging the first 100,000 volunteers to come ...
Lord Kitchener may refer to: Earl Kitchener , a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), senior British Army officer, colonial administrator, and popular military hero
Herbert Kitchener – Secretary of State for War (1914–1916) The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War (1916–1918) The Viscount Milner – Secretary of State for War (1918–1919) James Wolfe Murray – Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1914–1915), British Troops in Egypt (1916–1917)