WW1 Kitchener of Khartoum Memorial Matchbox Cover.

WW1 Kitchener of Khartoum Memorial Matchbox Cover.

A very good example depicting a portrait photograph and the reverse with details of his appointments. VGC.

Kitchener of Khartoum raised his Kitchener Army at the outbreak of the Great War and as Secretary of State for War he died in 1916 near the Orkney Islands, Scotland, when the warship taking him to negotiations in Russia was sunk by a German mine.