Equistrian Statue Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener

This memorial in the terrain of the Brompton Barracks commemorates the Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener who was active in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and in World War I. He was killed, together with 643 other people, when the cruiser HMS Hampshire ran on a mine, on her way to Russia for a diplomatic mission.

"Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, KG GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC
Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers,
This statue at one time stood in Khartoum and was unveiled
on this site by the Rt. Hon Christopher Soames, CBE, MP,
Secretary of State for War, on 25 April 1960.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was commissioned into the
Royal Engineers in 1871, much of his early service was in
Cyprus and Palestine, and in 1892 he was appointed Sirdar
of the Egyptian Army, defeating in 1896 a Dervish Force
at Dongola. In 1898, in command of all British and Egyptian
forces, he avenged the murder of Gordon when he
overthrew finally the Dervishes at Atbara and Omdurman.
In 1900 he was appointed \commander-in-Chief South African
forces and brought the war there to a successful end
in May 1902. Later he was made Commander-in-Chief in India and
in 1911 he became Consul General in Egypt.
On 6 August 1914 he was appointed Secretary of State for
War and will always be remembered for the part he
played in raising the New Volunteer Armies.
He was drowned in HMS Hampshire when she sank off
the Orkneys on 5th June 1916, bound for Russia."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries + Sharky Ward
• Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward