This is the first time the British use poison gas in World War I and also their first large-scale use of ' New ' or Kitchener's Army units.

Lloyd George for instance – who may have taken credit for some of Kitchener's achievements in the field of munitions – was critical of Kitchener in his War Memoirs.

He received a resounding vote of thanks from the 200 + Members of Parliament who had arrived to question him, both for his candour and for his efforts to keep the troops armed ; Sir Ivor Herbert, who, a week before, had introduced the failed vote of censure in the House of Commons against Kitchener's running of the War Department, personally seconded the motion.

* Kitchener's Army, a volunteer army in the First World War

Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914 to 1916.

The New Army, often referred to as Kitchener's Army or, disparagingly, Kitchener's Mob, was an ( initially ) all-volunteer army formed in the United Kingdom following the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War.

The 9th ( Scottish ) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the First World War.

The 10th ( Irish ) Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions ( formed from Kitchener's ' first hundred thousand ' new volunteers ), authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.

The British 11th ( Northern ) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener, it fought at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

The 16th ( Irish ) Division was a voluntary ' Service ' division of Kitchener's New Army raised in Ireland from the ' National Volunteers ', initially in September 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.

Following the outbreak of World War I in August, and the successful placement of the Home Rule Act on the statute books ( albeit with its implementation formally postponed ), Redmond made a speech in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow on September 20, in which he called for members of the Volunteers to enlist in an intended Irish Army Corps of Kitchener's New British Army.

He served on Kitchener's staff during the advance on Omdurman in 1898 and served with distinction in a field command in the Boer War in 1899 to 1902.

The Tyneside Irish Brigade was a British First World War infantry brigade of Kitchener's Army, raised in 1914.

The origins of the Tyneside Scottish are in the Kitchener's Army and the call to arms in World War I.

The Public Schools Battalions were British First World War Pals battalions of Kitchener's Army, originally made up exclusively of former public schoolboys.

The Grimsby Chums was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire.

* Copeland, H., " A Tragic memory of the Boer War: When Two Australian Officers Were Shot by Lord Kitchener's Orders ", The Argus Week-End Magazine, ( Saturday, 11 June 1938 ), p. 6.

In 1898 the regiment fought at Atbara and Omdurman during Lord Kitchener's reconquest of the Sudan and saw service in the Second Boer War at Johannesburg, Diamond Hill and Belfast.

The Leeds Pals were a First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in the West Yorkshire city of Leeds.

* The Lord Kitchener Memorial Homes in Chatham, Kent, were built with funds from public subscription following Kitchener's death.

* Kitchener's Wood Memorial

She has been an elder in Kitchener's St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church since 1991.

This was now at Kitchener's specific request, for the Khartoum expedition.

* 1898 – Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.

The bulk of the army was now made up of volunteers of the Territorial Force and Lord Kitchener's New Army, which had begun forming in August 1914.

The Somme was the first real test of this newly raised " citizen army " created following Lord Kitchener's call for recruits at the start of the war.

Since 1970, the opening of new records has led historians to rehabilitate Kitchener's reputation to some extent.

He subsequently had no children, but he raised his young cousin Bertha Chevallier-Boutell, daughter of Kitchener's first cousin Sir Francis Hepburn de Chevallier-Boutell.

In 1899 Kitchener was presented with a small island in the Nile at Aswan in gratitude for his services ; the island was renamed Kitchener's Island in his honour.

Kitchener's plan “ The Reorganisation and Redistribution of the Army in India ” recommended preparing the Indian Army for any potential war by reducing the size of fixed garrisons and reorganising it into two armies, to be commanded by the splendidly-named Generals Blood and Luck.

were supported by the Viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who had originally lobbied for Kitchener's appointment, the two men eventually came into conflict.

Later events proved Curzon was right in opposing Kitchener's attempts to concentrate all military decision-making power in his own office.

Kitchener's successor General O ’ Moore Creagh was nicknamed “ no More K ” and concentrated on establishing good relations with the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge.

) That failure, combined with the Shell Crisis of 1915 – amidst press publicity engineered by Sir John French – dealt Kitchener's political reputation a heavy blow ; Kitchener was popular with the public, so Asquith retained him in office in the new coalition government, but responsibility for munitions was moved to a new ministry headed by David Lloyd George.

Generals such as Sir William Robertson were critical of Kitchener's failure to ask the General Staff ( whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener ) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.

Not everyone mourned Kitchener's loss.

The suddenness of Kitchener's death, combined with his great fame and the fact that his body was never recovered, almost immediately gave rise to conspiracy theories which have proved long-lived.

After the war, a number of conspiracy theories were put forward, one by Lord Alfred Douglas, positing a connection between Kitchener's death, the recent naval Battle of Jutland, Winston Churchill, and a Jewish conspiracy.

In 1926, a hoaxer named Frank Power claimed in the Sunday Referee newspaper that Kitchener's body had been found by a Norwegian fisherman.

General Erich Ludendorff, Generalquartiermeister and joint head ( with von Hindenburg ) of Germany's war effort, stated that Russian communist elements working against the Tsar had betrayed Kitchener's travel plans to Germany.

* In Fräulein Doktor, a Dino DeLaurentis film, 1969, a woman spy informs the Germans of Kitchener's travel plans.