LORD KITCHENER

"Bitter for the Kaiser", Toby Jug Ca. 1914

THIS IS ONE IS THE FIRST OF THE SERIES AND WAS PRODUCED IN A LIMITED EDITION OF 250 .

DIMENSIONS: 12 1/2" high x 5"wide

BACKSTAMP: Wilkinson Ltd., England, Ca. 1918. Signed by F. Carruthers Gould. Exclusive to Soane & Smith Ltd. 482 Oxford Street, London.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF KITCHENER'S MILITARY CAREER:

* KITCHENER entered the in Army 1868, Career in Royal Engineers.
* Commander-in-Chief Egyptian Army 1892-1898.
* Commanded victorious forces at Battle of Omdurman 1898.
* Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, Boer War 1900-1901.
* Field Marshal 1909.
* Created Earl 1914.
* When Great Britain declared war in August 1914, Kitchener was in England. He was asked by the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith to become Secretary of State for War.
* Kitchener became the symbol of the British war effort when he appeared on a recruiting poster. The poster was a picture of Kitchener, walrus mustache and all pointing toward the viewer.
* KITCHENER drowned when the cruiser carrying him on a mission to Russia was mined and sunk off the Orkneys.