KITCHENER’S START.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 26 October 1911, Page 2

KITCHENER’S START.

Lord Kitchener’s first lift on tiic road to fame, fortune, and honours was described recently by his cousin, Mr F. E. Kitchener, when distributin'!; the prizes to students at Stone, Staffordshire. Mr Kitchener lives at Oulton Hall, Stone, and is chairman of the County Education Committee. He said he had had something to do with his cousin’s early education. Lord Kitchener was then a tall, overgrown lad, nearly 6ft. lin. in height. Ho managed to scramble into Woolwich - ; he was not high in the lists, and no one thought anything about him. After leaving Woolwich he got his commission in the Royal Engineers, and still no one thought much about him. He got his first move up in the world when he was appointed on the Palestine Survey, and there he learnt how to manage native soldiers, and acquired a great deal of that command over men which to-day distinguished him. ' He got that, his first appointment; because someone was wanted to go to Palestine and take photographs, and it was this knowledge that gave Lord Kitchener the lift up.