Lord Kitchener Death: What is Lord Kitchener famous for? What did Lord Kitchener do in the Boer War?

Lord Kitchener was an Anglo-Irish senior British army officer and colonial administrator. He rose to fame for his imperial campaigns, his scorched earth policy against the Boers, his expansion of Lord Robert’s concentration camps during the second Boer War.

Kitchener’s influence declined following the 1915 ‘shell crisis’ and the failed Dardanelles expedition, an operation he had supported in the cabinet. Dispatched to Russia on a fact-finding mission, he drowned on 5 June 1916 when his vessel HMS ‘Hampshire’ struck a mine off Orkney.

What is Lord Kitchener famous for?

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener was famous for colonial victories in Sudan and South Africa. Later, he helped build Britain’s first mass army and became the face of the First World War when he appeared on the ‘Your Country Needs You’ poster.

What did Lord Kitchener do in the Boer War?

During the last 18 months of the war, Kitchener combated guerrilla resistance by such methods as burning Boer farms and herding Boer women and children into disease-ridden concentration camps.