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The intriguing paradox of Lord Kitcheners life is this despite being destined to become the staunchest adversary of Mahomedanism, he was, in many ways, an exceptional ally to Mahomedans. (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, born on June 1850 in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland was a great soldier and statesman. Kitchener was credited in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan for which he was made Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, becoming a qualifying peer and of mid-rank as an Earl. On 5 June 1916, Kitchener was making his way to Russia to attend negotiations, on HMS Hampshire, when it struck a German mine just west of the Orkney, Scotland and sank. Kitchener was among 737 who died. This is his story.