IN JUNE 1916, Field Marshall Earl Kitchener, the Minister of War, was scheduled to visit Russia for a series of negotiations aimed at ensuring that the Tsar’s forces would stay in the war. Kitchener landed in Orkney were he briefly met Admiral Jellicoe before he joined the cruiser HMS Hampshire and prepared to set sail …
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A COMMEMORATIVE wall is to be built in memory of over 700 men who died when their warship, carrying Lord Kitchener on a secret mission, was sunk off Orkney during WWI. The wall will surround the island’s Kitchener Memorial in order to “better remember” those who died alongside the Field Marshall, the Secretary of State …
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