Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (26 May 1858 – 6 March 1912), known as Walter Kitchener, was a British soldier and colonial administrator.

Military career

He was the youngest son of Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864). In 1876 he followed his older brother Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC , was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway...

 in taking up a career in the British Army

British Army

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. Initially commissioned an unattached Sub-Lieutenant

Sub-Lieutenant

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, he joined the 14th Foot (later the West Yorkshire Regiment) in 1877. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War

Second Anglo-Afghan War

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 as a transport officer to the Kabul Field Force

Kabul Field Force

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 and took part in the first Battle of Charasiah and the battle of Karez Meer. Kitchener also saw action in the Chardeh Valley.

He later served in the Egypt during the Mahdist War

Mahdist War

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 where his brother Lord Kitchener was commanding British forces. During the war Frederick was made director of Transport during the 1898 Nile expedition and advance on Khartoum

Khartoum

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. He was appointed commander of the Kordofan force and took part in the Battle of Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

 which resulted in the recapture of Khartoum which had been captured by Mahdist's during the Siege of Khartoum in 1885. He was appointed Khartoum’s Military governor after it came under Anglo-Egyptian control.

In 1899 Kitchener was appointed to the staff of Sir Redvers Buller

Redvers Buller

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 in South Africa and took part in attempts to relieve Ladysmith

Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

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 during the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

. He was expected to be given an important post in South Africa but was passed over by his brother because Lord Kitchener didn’t want to be accused of favouritism. For his service in South Africa he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal

Queen's South Africa Medal

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 with five clasp

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s and the King's South Africa Medal

King's South Africa Medal

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 with two clasps. Kitchener remained in South Africa until 1902 when he was posted to British India to serve on the staff commanding the Lahore Division

Lahore Division

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On 31 October 1908 he was appointed Governor

Governor of Bermuda

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 and Commander in Chief of Bermuda

Bermuda

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, serving until his death in Hamilton

Hamilton, Bermuda

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 following complications from an operation for appendicitis

Appendicitis

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Kitchener married Caroline Louisa Fenton, daughter of Major Charles Hamilton Fenton, on 27 November 1884 and had five children.