Walter Kitchener

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener (26 May 1858 – 6 March 1912) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.

Military career Kitchener was the youngest son of Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864). He was promoted to captain on 11 November 1882, to major on 7 March 1892, and to lieutenant-colonel on 18 November 1896.

He later served in Egypt during the Mahdist War where his brother Lord Kitchener was commanding British forces. During the war Walter was made director of Transport during the 1898 Nile expedition and advance on Khartoum. He was appointed commander of the Kordofan force and took part in the Battle of Omdurman which resulted in the recapture of Khartoum which had been captured by Mahdist's during the Siege of Khartoum in 1885. He was appointed Khartoum's military governor after it came under Anglo-Egyptian control. During the latter part of the war, he commanded troops in Western Transvaal, and following the announcement of peace on 31 May 1902, he supervised the surrender of arms in that area. He left Cape Town on board the SS Dunvegan Castle in late June 1902, and arrived at Southampton the next month. For his service in South Africa he, was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with five clasps and the King's South Africa Medal with two clasps, and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the October 1902 South Africa Honours list.

In late 1902 he was posted to British India, where on 14 November 1902 he took up the command of the Lahore Division (Mecan Meer District). He was promoted to lieutenant general in October 1906.

He was appointed Governor and military Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, a strategic Imperial fortress colony (now described as a British Overseas Territory) in the North Atlantic Ocean with a disproportionately large garrison, effective 31 October 1908, serving until his death in Hamilton following complications from an operation for appendicitis.