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Also Known As Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome • Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, of the Vaal, and of Aspall • Viscount Broome of Broome, Baron Denton of Denton • Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and of Aspall • Denton of Denton, Baron
Born June 24, 1850 • Ireland
Died June 5, 1916 (aged 65) • Atlantic Ocean • Scotland
Title / Office governor-general (1898-1899), Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
Role In Battle of Omdurman • Fashoda Incident • South African War • World War I

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  • Kitchener was the first member of the military to be appointed as the British secretary of war.
  • Kitchener thought the monarch should be featured rather than him on recruitment posters, and so he insisted on "God Save the King" being printed on the posters.
  • A famous British recruitment poster during the war featured Kitchener pointing in the fashion later seen in Uncle Sam recruitment posters in the United States.

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