| Kitchener | C | | | 1st Volunteer Service Company
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | C | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | C | | | 3rd Volunteer Service Company
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | C | | | 3rd Volunteer Battalion
Source: Medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | C | | | 3rd Volunteer Battalion
Source: Medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | F W | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | New Zealand, 10th Contingent |
| Kitchener | F W | | Major General | Entered 1876; Brevet Colonel, 1898. Staff Service: DAAG for Inst, Bombay, 1891-96; Special Service, Egypt, 1896; Specially employed with Egyptian Army, 1897-99; Brigadier General, Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1900. War service: Afghan War, 1878-79-80 (Despatches; medal with clasp); Expedition to Dongola (Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; 4th Class Osmanieh; Egyptian medal with 2 clasps); Nile Expedition 1897; Nile Expedition 1898(Despatches; Brevet of Colonel; 3rd class Medjidie; 3 clasps to Egyptian medal; medal); Boer War, 1899-1903 (Despatches); on Staff.
Source: List of CB recipients. Various sources | Staff |
| Kitchener | F W | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (Prince of Wales's Own) West Yorkshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | F W | | Major General | MID LG: 29 July 1902, page: 4836. Source: General Kitchener. 23 June 1902. Re: Final despatch & mentions
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| Kitchener | F W (Hon) | | Local Brigadier General | MID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 941. Source: General Buller. 30 March 1900. Re: Ladysmith
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| Kitchener | Fred William | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | New Zealand, 10th Contingent |
| Kitchener | G | 3978 | Private | QSA (6).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 1st (Royal) Dragoons |
| Kitchener | H | | | 6th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
| Kitchener | H H | | Lieutenant General | Born in Ireland at Ballylongford, he was trained for the Royal Engineers at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, which he entered in 1867. Commissioned at the age of 21, he was lent to the Palestine Exploration Fund for archaeological work in 1874; did surveying in Cyprus in 1878, and in 1882 began the long career in Egypt and the Sudan that was to make him famous. He rose to be Governor-General of the Eastern Sudan in 1886 and Sirdar or Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian forces in 1892. This led to the conquest of Sudan and to the avenging of General Gordon's death at Khartoum six years later. The next year he was called to South Africa as Chief-of-Staff to Earl Roberts and in 1900 he succeeded the latter as Commander-in-Chief. Kitchener's main ability lay in the field of organisation. He created the blockhouse system, suppressed rebellion in the North-West Cape, and despite many setbacks brought the war to an end with the Treaty of Vereeniging in 1902. He spent the ensuing years in India and the East, became Secretary of State for War in 1914, raised 3 million men by voluntary enlistment before the adoption of conscription and protested against the continuance of the Dardenelles expedition. Sent to Russia on the eve of the Revolution he was drowned off Northern Scotland in HMS Hampshire. Probably the most prestigious British military personality since Wellington, he was never known to address a man in the ranks except to give him an order and would have no married officers on his staff.
Born in Ireland in 1850, and is son of Lieutenant Colonel H H Kitchener. He received his early military training at the RMA, Woolwich, passing thence into the Royal Engineers. In 1882, Lieutenant Kitchener, as he then still was, had a command of Egyptian Cavalry. In the following year he got his captaincy, and then promotion came to him rapidly in recognition of his untiring work and frequent active service in Egypt and the Sudan. From that time his war service included the Sudan Expedition in 1884-5, as DAA and QMG (medal with clasp and bronze star); operations round Suakim in 1888, being in command at the action at Handoub (severely wounded); Sudan in 1888-9, action at Gemaizeh, when he was in command of a Brigade of the Egyptian Army, and took part in the action at Toski (two clasps, CB) Dongola Expedition in 1896, in command of the Expeditionary Force; operations of June 7 and Sep 19 (promoted Major-General for distinguished service; KCB; 1st class Osmanieh, and Egyptian medal with two clasps); the Nile Expeditions in 1897-8, acting as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Expeditionary Forces throughout the operations, including the battles of the Atbara and Khartoum (raised to the Peerage; thanked by the Houses of Parliament; medal and two clasps to Egyptian medal). Soon after the Boer War broke out in Lord Kitchener went out as Chief of the Staff to Lord Roberts, and participated in all the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb-May, including the actions at Paardeberg; the operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900; present at the actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria; the operations east and west of Pretoria from July-November, 1900, and in the Orange River and Cape Colonics. Subsequently in November, 1900, Lord Kitchener succeeded Lord Roberts as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in South Africa, directing the operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, on the Zululand Frontier of Natal and in Cape Colony. (Despatches, promoted Lt.-General and General for distinguished service; QSA with three clasps, KSA and two clasps; GCMG) Having brought the Boer War to a successful conclusion, Lord Kitchener was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the E Indies, in which position he immediately set about the reorganisation of the Indian Army and a redistribution of the troops, in order to effectively resist any possible invasion of the North. These radical changes brought him into frequent conflict with the Viceroy, although it was characteristic of Lord Kitchener's methods that his views received no airing by the aid of an inspired Press crusade. However, with the change of Government in 1906, a modus vivendi by a satisfactory compromise was arranged. The burden of Lord Kitchener's original complaint was that although he was the Commander in Chief in India, the real control of the Army under the Viceroy was not vested in himself, but in a junior General at Simla, who has since been displaced; Lord Kitchener now being directly responsible to the Viceroy. He was unmarried.
Source: List of GCMG recipients. Various sources | Royal Engineers |
| Kitchener | H H (Lord) | | Major General | Chief of Staff. MID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 844. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 31 March 1900. Re: Orange Free State
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