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KITCHENER'S CAREER.

Kitchener of Khartonm is thj joldest son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel

tEL H. Kitchener, and was born ii 1850. Educated at the Royal Militar

'Academy, Woolwich, he 'joined thtii [ 'Royal Engineers, and was employed fora | some time in and’ after 1874 on -Palestine and Cyprus Surveys. served, having volunteered, as major of||| ‘cavalry in the Egyptian Army in 1882® with the Nile Expedition in 1884, 'an® •became Governor of Suakin in •For his bravery in'the action of |in 1888, when 'he led the Egyptians ’troops against Osman Digna, he made A.D.C. to the Queen, and in thH "subsequent fighting he was mehtiohe^^ ,in despatches and made C.B. j 1888 till '1892 he held the rank uffi I Acljutant-Ganeral in the Egyptiath||| Army, and in the latter year wa(j|| : appointed Sirdar, After the taking ofy| Dongola, in 1896, he was made K-C.8.,;® , and subsequently organised the linil^ ; irresistible advance against the Khalifa, i which reoultcd in his utter defeat sA|| i Omdurniairi in September, 1898. IAKS|| I this he was awarded a peerage, ! Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and o||| : Aspall, iu the County of Suffolk. 0i« his return to England he was given enthusiastic reception, and he wa ||| | presented with the freedom of the lof London and a sword of honourJ|iy ! Appointed Grand Master of EnglishS? Freemasons in Egypt and the Soudan iQ;|s 1899. D.C.L, Oxford 1899. Received^ | June, 1899, the thanks of both ; of Parliament and a grant of £30,000 jan acknowledgment of his eminent' v| serviCes in planning and conducting thC'j'j : campaign on the Nile in 189 G-98, which 'culminated in the battle of Omdurman, | the capture of Khartoum, and thC^ I overthrow of the power of the Khalifa-j ,^ |ln 1900 he was appointed 'Coromandefli;;.j iu-Oaiof of the Driiish TorOes in Sooth ; Africa. , *'-;4 . -fi. ' ■

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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4

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KITCHENER'S CAREER. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4

KITCHENER'S CAREER. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4

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