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Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener died on June 5 1916. He was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of World War I, although he died halfway through it. Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum"; as Chief of Staff (1900–02) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in conquest of the Boer Republics. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister. One of the few to foresee a long war, he organised the largest volunteer army that both Britain and the world had seen, and oversaw a significant expansion of materials production to fight Germany on the Western Front. His commanding image, appearing on recruiting posters demanding "Your country needs you!" Kitchener drowned on 5 June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank west of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. He was making his way to Russia in order to attend negotiations but the ship struck a German mine. He was one of the 600 killed on board the ship. The correspondence shown here from 1913 relates to an enquiry received by the Defence Department in New Zealand regarding the height of Lord Kitchener. The file in which this correspondence appears is very brief so there is no explanation as to why this knowledge was needed. The Chief Clerk of Defence notes that the height of Lord Kitchener “to be about 6ft and a 3 quarter inch in his stockings” Reference: AAYS 8652 AD19 46 121/19 For further enquiries please email Research.Archives@dia.govt.nz For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material from Archives New Zealand |
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