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Title
Lord Kitchener (1850–1916)
Date
1912/1960
Medium
bronze & rock-faced ashlar
Accession number
ME4_TJ_S020
Work type
Equestrian
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
25th April 1960
Access
at all times
Signature/marks description
stamped: SYDNEY MARCH SC. 1912
Inscription description
stone plinth: KITCHENER / 1850-1916; on bronze plaque set on a concrete block to side of statue: FIELD MARSHALL EARL KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM / KG. KP. GCB. OM. GCSI. GCMG. GCIE. PC./ COLONEL COMMANDANT ROYAL ENGINEERS / THIS STATUE AT ONE TIME STOOD IN KHARTOUM AND WAS UNVEILED / ON THIS SITE BY THE RT. HON. CHRISTOPHER SOAMES CBE. MP. / SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR, ON 25 APRIL 1960 / HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER WAS COMMISSIONED INTO THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN 1871, MUCH OF HIS EARLY SERVICE WAS IN / CYPRUS AND PALESTINE AND IN 1892 HE WAS APPOINTED SURDAR / OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY DEFEATING IN 1896 A DERVISH FORCE / AT DONGOLA IN 1898 IN COMMAND OF ALL BRITISH AND EGYPTIAN / FORCES. HE AVENGES THE MURDER OF GORDON WHEN HE / OVERTHREW FINALLY THE DERVISHES AT ATBARA AND AMDURMAN / IN 1900 HE WAS APPOINTED COMMANDER IN CHIEF SOUTH AFRIACN / FORCES AND BROUGHT THE WAR THERE TO A SUCCESSFUL END IN / MAY 1902. LATER HE WAS MADE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN INDIA AND / IN 1911 BECAME CONSUL GENERAL IN EGYPT. ON 6TH AUGUST 1914 HE WAS APPOINTED SECRETARY OF STATE FOR / WAR AND WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR THE PART HE / PLAYED IN RAISING THE NEW VOLUNTEER ARMIES / HE WAS DROWNED IN HMS HAMPSHIRE WHEN SHE SANK OFF THE ORKNEYS ON 5 JUNE 1916 BOUND FOR RUSSIA.
Khartoum Road, Chatham
ME4 4UB
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