- Type of Memorial
- Sculptured / Cast figure
- WMR Reference Number
- 61853
- Description
- Statue of Kitchener mounted on a horse and set on a rectangular stone block plinth. The whole is set on a stone block step and surrounded by lawn.
- Inscription
- Plaque: 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 5 JUNE 1916 BOUND FOR RUSSIA.