Clay Pipe Field Marshal H H Kitchener c1916 F*S

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~100 year old clay pipe with the figure of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener on the left side, and WW1 submarine and flying boat of the other. "Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (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. Kitchener was among 737 who died on 5 June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank having struck a German mine" 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. 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. Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General (de facto administrator).". Extract from Wikipedia