Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
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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.
Kitchener in full dress uniform (July 1910)
Kitchener on his mother's lap, with his brother and sister
Kitchener, Commander of the Egyptian Army (centre right), 1898
Duffus Bros, platinum print/NPG P403. Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, 1901
Second Boer War
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The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
(A typical British soldier) Corporal Alexander Duncan Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
A sketch showing the arrest of Jameson after the failed raid, in 1896
Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)