Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC ( 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916 ), 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 through it.

* The Man Who Would Kill Kitchener, by François Verster, a documentary film on the life of Fritz Joubert Duquesne that won six Stone awards, 1999.

* Allan Cup is won by Kitchener Greenshirts

Ottawa won 7 – 2 in the semi-finals, then won 7 – 2 again in a rematch versus Kitchener in the finals.

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

Two Kitchener Rangers coaches have won the Matt Leyden Trophy as the OHL Coach of the Year ; Tom Barrett in 1983 – 84, and Joe McDonnell in 1988 – 89.

Candidates were nominated in Huron — Bruce, Kitchener — Waterloo, and other ridings in London, Ontario, and won only a handful of votes.

He tied Bobby Orr's Ontario Hockey League ( OHL ) record for goals by a defenceman, and won two OHL championships and a Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers as a junior.

The Whalers, although seeded # 2, easily won the Wayne Gretzky Trophy as Western Conference playoff champion, sweeping # 7 Guelph, and winning in 5 against both # 3 Kitchener and # 1 London.

Niagara Falls won the right to play for the Cup by defeating the Kitchener Rangers for the OHA championship, and the Verdun Maple Leafs for the eastern championship.

He won a total of five elections, and is the longest serving former Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) for Kitchener since Canadian Confederation in 1867.

He won the Liberal nomination in Kitchener Centre on February 2, 2003, and defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Wayne Wettlaufer by about 2000 votes in the provincial election held later in the year.

He won the Ontario Hockey Association ( OHA ) and eastern Canadian junior championships with Kitchener in 1922 – 23, but lost the Memorial Cup final to the University of Manitoba.

Young is the only hockey player to have won a Memorial Cup ( in 1982 with the Kitchener Rangers ), a Calder Cup ( with the 1988 Hershey Bears ), a Turner Cup ( with the 1998 and 2000 Chicago Wolves ), and a Stanley Cup ( with the 1991 and 1992 Penguins ).

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In early 1974 he won the nomination of the Kitchener Center Liberal Party to run as their candidate for Member of Parliament in the July 8th general election.

The Kitchener Rangers won their second ever Memorial Cup, their first being in 1982.

There were also a number of other famous people from Athea, including the Ahern brothers of Olympian fame, David Quaid served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1897 – 1909 he fought at the battles of Belmont, The Modder River and the Relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899 – 1902, he later served with his regiment in India under Lord Kitchener.

His fame was especially high in his native Scotland: on 12 May that year, described as " one of the heroes of Omdurman ," he was entertained to luncheon by the council of the City of Edinburgh, and many Scots felt that MacDonald, and not Kitchener, was the true hero.

Once again Kitchener commended Beatty for his efforts in the campaign and as a result Hood and Beatty were both promoted to Commander on 15 November 1898.

; 1898: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat the Mahdist forces at the battle of Omdurman, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.

He was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on 31 October 1898 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme of restoring good governance to the Sudan.

At the Battle of Omdurman ( 2 September 1898 ), 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.

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.

In 1898, the Mahdist state was overthrown by the Anglo Egyptian force led by British Field Marshal Lord Kitchener.

* Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener, in recognition of his victory in the Battle of Omdurman, was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk ( Khartoum being the less obscure but relatively near capital of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ), in 1898, and ( by this time a full General ) was further created Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk ( having been Administrator of Transvaal and of the Orange River Colony in 1901 ), in 1902, and ( by this time a Field Marshal ) was further still created Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, in 1914.

He had already been created Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1898, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1902 and was made Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent and Viscount Broome, of Broome in the County of Kent, at the same time he was granted the earldom.

Leading a joint Egyptian-British force, Kitchener led military campaigns from 1896 to 1898.

He arranged Haig's posting to the 1898 Sudan War – with orders to write privately to Wood reporting on Kitchener, the expedition commander.

At the Battle of Omdurman ( 2 September 1898 ) the British commander, Lord Kitchener, unwittingly exposed his flanks to the Dervish ( i. e., Mahdist ) army.

In 1898 after Britain gained dominance in Sudan as part of a condominium arrangement, Lord Kitchener proposed founding a college in the memory of Gordon of Khartoum, who was killed in the Battle of Khartoum.

The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, believed that it would help recruitment if friends and work-mates from the same town were able to join up and fight together.

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In World War I, Duquesne spied for Germany, earning the Iron Cross for allegedly sinking the HMS Hampshire thereby killing Lord Kitchener in 1916.

Beatty gained recognition in the campaign for the recapture of the Sudan ( 1897 – 1899 ) commanded by Lord Kitchener.

He was commended by Kitchener for his part in the campaign and as a result was made Companion of the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ).

As a result of these and other Boer successes, the British, led by Lord Kitchener, mounted three extensive searches for De Wet, but without success.

In June 1916 Lloyd George succeeded Kitchener ( drowned en route to Russia ) as Secretary of State for War, although he had little control over strategy, as General Robertson had been given direct right of access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister.

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.

Neillands, for instance, note that Kitchener consistently rose in ability as he was promoted.

According to verbal reports from William Forde, who was his batman, Kitchener was revered by his men for his leadership and fair treatment of subordinates.

Kitchener was worried that, although his moustache was bleached white by the sun, his blonde hair refused to turn grey, making it harder for Egyptians to take him seriously.

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.

Milner was a hard-line conservative and wanted forcibly to Anglicise the Afrikaans people ( the Boers ), and Milner and the British government wanted to assert victory by forcing the Boers to sign a humiliating peace treaty ; Kitchener wanted a more generous compromise peace treaty that would recognize certain rights for the Afrikaners and promise future self-government.

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.