As well as Bennett, speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener, who among other things was prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I.

The fact that newly appointed Minister of Munitions ( and future prime minister ) David Lloyd George was supposed to accompany Kitchener on the fatal journey, but cancelled at the last moment, has been given significance by some.

This fact, along with the alleged lethargy of the rescue efforts, has led some to claim that Kitchener was assassinated, or that his death would have been convenient for a British establishment that had come to see him as a figure from the past who was incompetent to wage modern war.

* As a British soldier who was lost at sea during the First World War and has no known grave, Kitchener is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Hollybrook Memorial at Southampton, Hampshire.

* Oberoi Hotels ' premier luxury resort, Wildflower Hall, Shimla in the Himalayas, has named its premier suite the " Kitchener Suite ".

A new campus for the health sciences program has been built in Kitchener, Ontario and includes a satellite of McMaster University ’ s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy.

In recent years, Kitchener ’ s economy has diversified to include new high-value economic clusters.

Beginning in 2004, the City of Kitchener has launched several initiatives to re-energize the downtown core.

The Health Sciences Campus has been central to the emergence of Kitchener ’ s health science cluster.

The Province of Ontario has committed to building a new provincial courthouse in downtown Kitchener, on the block bordered by Frederick, Duke, Scott and Weber streets.

Welwyn Wilton Katz ( born June 7, 1948 ) is a Canadian children's author who has lived in Kitchener and Toronto, Ontario.

To date, an excursion train serves St. Catharines and Niagara Falls on weekends in the summer, and an extension has been made to Kitchener.

Kitchener, Ontario has a small area designated as Speakers ' Corner on the northwest corner of King and Frederick Streets.

Kitchener has also won the J. Ross Robertson Cup four times, won the Hamilton Spectator Trophy seven times, and have won seven division titles.

Military historian Timothy Bowman has described the situation as follows: " While Kitchener saw the UVF as an efficient military force and was prepared to offer concessions to secure the services of UVF personnel in the British army his view of the INV was very different.

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He was the chairman of the German Pioneer's Day Committee locally in Kitchener-Waterloo for four years, and has been a Deputy Judge in the Small Claims Courts of Kitchener, Cambridge, Woodstock, Stratford and Hamilton since 1993.

The General Officer Commanding 10th Irish Division has much pleasure in informing the troops that Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, the Secretary of State for War, expressed himself as highly satisfied with all he saw of the 10th Division at the inspection today.

By this point, Royce's Bulman differs from the television version considerably-his is called Alfred George Bulman ( the TV one is George Kitchener Bulman ), and by The Crypto Man in 1985 has risen to be a Detective Superintendent in the Security Services section of the Metropolitan Police ( his TV alternative never made it above Detective Chief Inspector before becoming a private investigator ).

The Government of Ontario has plans to build a new Highway 7 freeway bypass joining the current northern terminus of the Hanlon Parkway to the Conestoga Parkway in Kitchener ; if the project goes ahead, it is likely that the Hanlon will be upgraded to a freeway for its full length and given a 400-series highway designation.

The company is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, and has locations in all ten provinces, the Yukon and Northwest Territories ; the company formally had operations in the Midwestern United States under the MyMenu brand that was discontinued in early 2011.

French felt ( wrongly ) that the war would be over by the summer before the New Army divisions were deployed, as Germany had recently redeployed some divisions to the east, and took the step of appealing to the Prime Minister, Asquith, over Kitchener ’ s head, but Asquith refused to overrule Kitchener.

French believed that the war would be over by summer 1915, as Germany had recently redeployed some divisions to the east, and in January 1915, with the concurrence of senior commanders ( e. g. Haig ), he asked for Kitchener's New Army volunteers to be incorporated into existing divisions as battalions rather than sent out as entire divisions, and further damaged his relationship with Kitchener by appealing in vain to the Prime Minister, Asquith, over his head.

As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.

* 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

In an effort to cut off supplies to the raiders, the British, now under the leadership of Lord Kitchener, responded with a scorched earth policy of destroying Boer farms and moving civilians into concentration camps.

Kitchener quite possibly prevented war between France and Britain when he dealt firmly but non-violently with the French military expedition, under Captain Marchand, intending to claim Fashoda, in what became known as the Fashoda Incident.

In the Breaker Morant case several soldiers from Australia were arrested and court-martialled for summarily executing Boer prisoners, and also for the murder of a German missionary believed to be a Boer sympathiser, all allegedly under unwritten orders approved by Kitchener.

This was perhaps in part because Kitchener was thought to be a Tory ( the Liberals were in office at the time ); perhaps due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign ; but most importantly because Morley, who was a Gladstonian and thus suspicious of imperialism, felt it inappropriate, after the recent grant of limited self-government under the 1909 Indian Councils Act, for a serving soldier to be Viceroy.

Kitchener was a sceptic about the tank, which is why it was developed under the auspices of Churchill ’ s Admiralty.

Kitchener was under pressure from French Prime Minister Aristide Briand ( 29 March 1916 ) for the British to attack on the Western Front to help relieve the pressure of the German attack at Verdun.

Kitchener, popular with the public, was stripped of his powers over munitions ( given to a new ministry under Lloyd George ).

A difference of opinion with Kitchener, regarding the status of the military member of the council in India ( who controlled army supply and logistics, which Kitchener wanted under his own control ), led to a controversy in which Curzon failed to obtain the support of the home government.

On 4 September, he made plans to halt the French and British withdrawal and attack the Germans all along the front with the French Sixth Army ( 150, 000 men ) and the aid of the British Expeditionary Force ( 70, 000 men ) under the command of Sir John French ( who was prompted to join this attack by the British war minister, Lord Kitchener ).

In the British television sitcom Dad's Army, the character of Corporal Jones often refers to the days he spent serving under General Kitchener at the Battle of Omdurman.

French did not have a high opinion of Roberts, was ambivalent about Kitchener and disliked Nicholson, under whose control Roberts had centralised all transport – French managed to retain autonomy for cavalry division transport.

After the final defeat of the Khalifa by the British under General Kitchener in 1898, Muhammad Ahmad's tomb was destroyed by the British to prevent it from becoming a rallying point for his supporters, and his bones were thrown into the Nile.

Mainline traffic on Highway 8 could continue under the Conestoga, where the route defaults to King Street, to enter downtown Kitchener.

Convinced that the huts would not be ready on time, and that Australian troops would therefore have to spend a winter on Salisbury Plain under canvas, Chauvel persuaded the High Commissioner for Australia in London, former Prime Minister Sir George Reid, to approach Lord Kitchener with an alternate plan of diverting the AIF to Egypt, which was done.

On 22 April 1901, he received orders to return to India where he was made Adjutant General ( 6 November 1901 ) under Kitchener.

However, he was succeeded in the other titles under the special remainder by his elder brother, Colonel Henry Kitchener, as second Earl.

Kitchener himself spoke to the UVF and they arranged the enlistments, they were the only Pal Division to go under no training before entering battle.

* 1916 – The city of Berlin, under pressure to demonstrate the loyalty of its many citizens of German origin to the war effort changes its name to Kitchener, in honour of Lord Kitchener

At the outbreak of the First World War, ex-soldier Eli Cornwell volunteered for service and was fighting in France under Lord Kitchener.

Maharajahs came with great retinues from all over India, many of them meeting for the first time while the massed ranks of the Indian armies, under their Commander-in-Chief Lord Kitchener, paraded, played their bands and restrained the crowds of common people.