Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener , known as Lord Kitchener (June 24th 1850, Bally Longford, County of Kerry, Ireland - June 5th 1916), count Kitchener (of Khartoum), was a marshal and a politician of the British empire .
It returns to the " royal militairy academy" of Woolwich in 1868. After be usefulhaving been useful voluntarily in the French Army during the war of 1870, it becomes Officier " Royal Engineers " and accomplishes several external stays in Palestine and with Cyprus.
He officiated in Egypt and with the Sudan, where he crushed in 1898 the Madhiste state founded by Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah Al-Mahdi then confronted himself in particular with Jean-Baptiste Marchand during the Crise of Fachoda, then in South Africa at the time of the Guerre of Boers. If it made its first feats of arms in 1870, like volunteer in the army of Napoleon III, it is with the eyes of the community of the historians one of the large instigators of the modern war, in particular by the installation of the first camps of internment during the Guerre of Boers, but also before by the systematic use of the guns Maxim against the Mahdiste cavalry.
Minister for the War during the First World War, it perishes during a mission which was to lead it in Russia: the June 5th 1916, in the North-West of the the Orkneys, the Croiseur of the Royal Navy HMS Hampshire travelled towards the Russian Empire when it ran up against a German mine and was inserted quickly in ice-cold water carrying Lord Kitchener 66 years old.
Its career had made of him a true national hero and its effigy on the posters of recruitment had encouraged million volunteers to enlist. It succeeds in making pass in little time the British army of: 150000 soldiers of trade, with more than 1,5 million mobilized. It still inflated manpower with more than 3 million soldiers, via his law of conscription of January 1916.
Even if his/her colleagues did not have any more for him a great consideration, it had preserved all its popularity and its disappearance shocked the British considerably. He was freemason.
It was besides the only military personality of the nations in war to disappear from violent death.