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.

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 Kitchener's 1903 reorganisation of the Indian Army, 4th Bombay Rifles became 104th Wellesley ’ s Rifles, to commemorate the fact that the regiment had been commanded in 1800 by Arthur Wellesley ( later the Duke of Wellington ).

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

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.

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.

Kitchener's second tour in the Sudan ( 1886 – 1899 ) won him national fame, and he was made Aide de Camp to Queen Victoria and appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath ( KCB ).

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.

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

) 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.

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.

Kitchener's predictions of three years fighting and a million men needed was regarded as incredible.

They were split into five groups -- a force of 8, 000 under Osman Azrak was arrayed directly opposite the British, in a shallow arc along a mile ( 1. 6 km ) of a low ridge leading onto the plain, and the other Mahdist forces were initially concealed from Kitchener's force.

This resulted in the Fashoda incident, where an expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand was opposed by forces under Lord Kitchener's command.

This question over the availability of Territorial divisions for overseas service was one of Lord Kitchener's motivations for raising the New Army separately.

Though initially there was a surge in voluntary enlistment for the Irish regiments of the 10th ( Irish ) Division and the 16th ( Irish ) Division of Kitchener's New Service Army formed for the war, the enthusiasm did not last.

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.

Kitchener's New Army was made up of the following Army Groups ( meaning a group of divisions similar in size to an army, not a group of armies ) and Divisions:

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.

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.

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.

( Since Kitchener's death in 1916, no other major figure opposed this fundamental change to the principles on which the New Army had been raised.

Major Thomas argued that the killings of Boer commandos were justified because the men were part of an irregular unit which was carrying out the direct orders of a superior officer — i. e. Lord Kitchener's order to " take no prisoners ".

The Aswan Botanical Garden is adjacent to the west on Kitchener's Island.

View on Kitchener's Island of the Aswan Botanical Garden and west bank of Nile.

Kitchener's Island is one of two major islands on the Nile in vicinity of Aswan, the other one being Elephantine.

Image: Aswan, Kitchener's Island, east bank, Egypt, Oct 2004. jpg | A view to the inbound felucca wharf on Kitchener's Island.

Image: Aswan, Kitchener's Island, felucca wharf, Egypt, Oct 2004. jpg | An outbound felucca wharf on Kitchener's Island

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.

With new management under Kitchener's William Seip, Helix released two independent albums on their own H & S Records, entitled Breaking Loose and White Lace & Black Leather, in 1979 and 1981 respectively.

Rainer was replaced on guitar by Kitchener's Rick VanDyk, formerly of Zero Option who had released an album in the early 90s.

" Kitchener's Kaleb " Duckman " Duck ( of BraVurA ), who played on Brent's My Wicked Twin CD, was hired on second guitar.

In 1915 Thomson, a fluent French speaker, was sent to Bucharest as military attaché on Kitchener's initiative to bring Romania into the war.

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.

Authorisation to create these new divisions, part of Kitchener's Army, was given on 10 October 1914.

In January 2005, the paper was moved to Market Square on King Street East in Kitchener's downtown core.

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Following the loss of Dongola in September 1896, then Berber and Abu Hamed to Kitchener's army in 1897, the Khalifa Abdullah sent an army that was defeated at the Battle of Atbara River on April 8, 1898, afterwards falling back to his new capital of Omdurman.