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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALETTE CARL 1916/11 Uncirculated
Superb, original lustre all over. An excellent memento of WWI
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALETTE. Bust of Kitchener to right, legend around. Legend and date. Uncirculated.

Superb, original lustre all over. An excellent memento of WWI.

Horatio Kitchener was born near Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1850. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, he entered the Royal Engineers in 1871. Kitchener served in Palestine (1874-78), Cyprus (1878-82) and the Sudan (1883-85).

In 1898, Kitchener became a national hero when he successfully led the British Army in the fight to win back the Sudan. As a result of his victory at Omdurman he was granted the title Lord Kitchener.

In the Boer War (1899-1902), Kitchener was chief of staff to Lord Frederick Roberts and was responsible for developing strategies to deal with the Boer guerrilla campaign. His decision to destroy Boer farms and to move civilians into concentration camps resulted him being highly criticised by politicians such as David Lloyd George and Charles Trevelyan.

After the Boer War was brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Vereeninging, Kitchener became commander-in-chief in India (1902-09) and military governor of Egypt (1911-14).

On the outbreak of the First World War, the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, appointed Kitchener as Secretary of War. Kitchener, the first member of the military to hold the post, was given the task of recruiting a large army to fight Germany. With the help of a war poster that featured Kitchener and the words: 'Join Your Country's Army', over 3,000,000 men volunteered in the first two years of the war. Asquith is reputed to have uncharitably said of Kitchener, "he is not a great man. He is a great poster." Given that Kitchener's death hit Britain like a thunderclap, and was widely perceived as a disaster for the war effort, this comment was probably a bit severe.

To this day, Kitchener remains an icon of the Allied effort during WWI. Commemorative medallets such as this one were hugely popular with the general public right across the Commonwealth, particularly those issued following his death on June 5th, 1916.

 

 

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