Herbert Kitchener Autograph | World War One Commander

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener signed four page handwritten letter dated 1886 on Junior United Service Club headed paper, to Sir C M Watson about replacing him at Suakim.

Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) was a senior British Army officer who at the outbreak of WWI was appointed Secretary of State for War. He was one of the few to anticipate a long war & organised Britain's largest ever volunteer army, as well as overseeing a massive expansion of material production. In June 1916 Kitchener was traveling to Russia on HMS Hampshire for negotiations with Tsar Nicholas II when the ship was sunk by a German mine, he was among the 737 who died.