Lord Kitchener 1916 Memorial Broadside - Drowned on the HMS Hampshire - WWI For Sale

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Lord Kitchener 1916 Memorial Broadside - Drowned on the HMS Hampshire - WWI:
$85.00

“In Memoriam – K. of K.”

“Reproduced from the New York Times, June 7th, 1916”.

A memorial broadside for Lord Kitchener, “Kitchener of Karthoum”, of \"Your country needs you!\" immortality, printed just after he was drowned when his armoured cruiser struck a mine and sank in World War I.

\"Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (1850–1916), 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 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. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister. One of the few to foresee a long war, he organised the largest volunteer army that Britain, and indeed the world, had seen and a significant expansion of materials production to fight Germany on the Western Front. His commanding image, appearing on recruiting posters demanding \"Your country needs you!\", remains recognised and parodied in popular culture to this day.\"

\"Lord Kitchener sailed from Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire for a diplomatic mission to Russia via the port of Arkhangelsk. Due to the gale force conditions, it was decided that Hampshire would sail through the Pentland Firth, then turn north along the western coast of the Orkney Islands. This course would provide a lee from the strong winds, allowing escorting destroyers to keep pace with her. Hampshire departed Scapa Flow at 16:45 and about an hour later rendezvoused with her two escorts, the Acasta class destroyers HMS Unity and Victor. As the ships turned to the northwest the gale increased and shifted direction so that the ships were facing it head on. This caused the destroyers to fall behind Hampshire. As it was considered unlikely that enemy submarines would be active in such conditions, Captain Savill of the Hampshire ordered Unity and Victor to return to Scapa Flow.\"

\"Sailing alone in heavy seas, Hampshire was approximately 1.5 miles off the mainland of Orkney between Brough of Birsay and Marwick Head at 19:40 when an explosion occurred and she heeled to starboard. The detonation had holed the cruiser between bows and bridge, and the lifeboats were smashed against the side of the ship by the heavy seas when they were lowered. About 15 minutes after the explosion, Hampshire sank by the bows. Of over 600 personnel aboard, only 12 men on two Carley floats managed to reach the shore; Kitchener and his entire staff were lost. His body was never found. The survivors who caught sight of him in those last moments testified to his outward calm and resolution.\"

DESCRIPTION:

Broadside, printed on light card stock. 6.5”x9”. Several slight creases, light soil, one small tear, slight sunned-spot.

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