Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)
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British Field Marshal who dominated headlines for his imperial conquests, his brutal tactics in the Boer War, and his outsized role steering early WWI strategy. Went down with the HMS Hampshire in 1916.
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Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War.
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