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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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.

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.

The first phase was purely naval on the Allied side, as Lord Kitchener would not authorise troops to be shifted from the Western Front.

It was Milligan's opinion that Major Jenkins did not like him because Milligan constantly kept the morale of his fellow soldiers up, whereas Major Jenkins's approach was to take an attitude towards the troops similar to that of Lord Kitchener.

** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.

The family lived at 24 Lord Kitchener Road in the Bonnie Crest neighborhood of New Rochelle, New York.

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.

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.

Lord Kitchener stated that he had around 45 steam road trains at his disposal.

Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title " Lord Kitchener of Khartoum "; as Chief of Staff ( 1900 – 02 ) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts ' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer civilians in concentration camps.

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

During the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), Kitchener arrived with Lord Roberts on the RMS Dunottar Castle and the massive British reinforcements of December 1899.

Curzon wrote to Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space – Kitchener commented on the pettiness of this ( Curzon simply signed himself " Curzon " as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt ( the job formerly held by Lord Cromer ) and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( 1911 – 1914, during the formal reign of Abbas Hilmi II as Khedive ( nominally Ottoman monarch ) of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of Darfur ).

The iconic, much-imitated 1914 Lord Kitchener Wants You poster.

He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.

At the start of World War I, 4 August 1914, Admiral George Callaghan, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, was removed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

His term as Commander-in-Chief ( 1902 – 09 ) of the Army in India saw him quarrel with another eminent proconsul, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who eventually resigned.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

* 2 November 1935 11 February 1940: His Excellency the Right Honourable the Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia and Naval and Air Forces of Canada

* Charles Fleetwood ( 1618-1692 ), Parliamentary General during the English Civil War, later Lord Deputy of Ireland and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces lived in Stoke Newington.

This was in part a clash of personalities: Curzon once wrote on a document “ I rise from the perusal of these papers filled with the sense of the ineptitude of my military advisers ”, and once wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India, Lord Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space, which Kitchener thought petty ( Curzon simply signed himself “ Curzon ” as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

Nevertheless, the Court of Proprietors, forced the Directors to hurry Lord Clive to Bengal with the double powers of Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

On 3 April 1795, George appointed him effective Commander-in-Chief in succession to Lord Amherst although the title was not confirmed until three years later.

He distinguished himself commanding the Cavalry Division during the Second Boer War, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1912 but resigned over the Curragh Mutiny, and then served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first two years of World War I before serving as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, then becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a job which he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence.

The Curragh Incident caused great bitterness between senior officers: the former Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts refused to speak to French.

After discussions in February and March 1916 with Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell – who did not believe press talk of an armed Irish uprising but wanted more troops as a deterrent-Friend ( Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ) and Wimborne ( Lord Lieutenant ) French said that he could spare only a single cavalry brigade as reinforcements, and later offered an extra reserve infantry brigade, although in the event Friend declined ( 7 April ) to make formal application for the brigade to be sent.

The Trade Division was abolished in 1909 in the wake of the Committee of Imperial Defence inquiry into the feud between the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fisher and former Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, when it was discovered that the captain heading the Trade Division had been supplying the latter with confidential information during the inquiry.

* 2 August 19215 August 1926: His Excellency General the Right Honourable the Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia and Naval and Air Forces of Canada

Issues of performance in the Crimean War, especially disastrous lack of due provision for operations during the Russian winter of 1854 brought about the Board's demise in 1855. also the reference to Lord Raglan # Notable staff | below. As a result of enquiries made into the breakdown of transport and hospital arrangements during the first winter of the war, the Board of Ordnance, which had been in existence for four hundred years, was abolished, and the Artillery together with the Royal Engineers came directly under the Commander-in-Chief and the War Office like the rest of the Army.

The Marquess of Halifax during his time as William III's Lord Privy Seal, pictured with John Somers, 1st Baron Somers ( Lord Chancellor ) and John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( Commander-in-Chief of the Forces ).

Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong ( from 1987 to 1992 ).

The Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command ( 2SL / CNH ), commonly just known as the Second Sea Lord ( 2SL ), is one of the most senior admirals of the British Royal Navy ( after the First Sea Lord and the Commander-in-Chief Fleet ), and is responsible for personnel and naval shore establishments.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.

Further, soon after Lord Sydney appointed him governor of New South Wales Arthur Phillip drew up a detailed memorandum of his plans for the proposed new colony.

The two latter reefs are much closer to Lord Howe Island, New South Wales ( about 150 km ) than to the southernmost island of the rest of the territory, Cato Island.

In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.

Christ in Triumph over Darkness and Evil by Gabriel Loire ( 1982 ) at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of Lord Mountbatten.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

On 30 November 1967, Lord Caradon, the British Ambassador to the United Nations, announced that in accordance with the wishes of the local inhabitants, the islands would be returned to Muscat and Oman, despite criticism from President Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi that the islands should be transferred to the People's Republic of South Yemen.

" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.

The size of this community has been attributed to the former residence of the South Korean ambassador in Lord Chancellor's Walk off Coombe Lane West.

In what is now known as the Hopetoun Blunder, the governor-general, Lord Hopetoun, invited Sir William Lyne, the premier of the most populous state, New South Wales, to form a government.

* Larry Hama — Williams, Lord of the South

* Jae Woo Lee — Fisherman, Sumo Wrestler, Lord of the South

* May 9 – Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called " sankIrtanas " in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.

XII. 22 Lying Lips are abomination to the Lord ", pp. 519 – 657 in South, R., Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions ( Second Edition ), Volume I, Printed by S. D.

It was named after Lord Carrington, then governor of New South Wales.