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Description: | Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, on a visit to France inspecting troops, and in England, February 1916 and possibly earlier in the First World War.
I. Kitchener visits France between 9 and 12 February. He leaves a "headquarters" (possibly of a division) by car. He inspects a brigade of New Army Infantry which cheers him as he leaves. He watches wounded on stretchers being taken on board ship at Calais, and watches the ship leave harbour. II. In Britain, King George V, Kitchener and General Sir William Robertson, the new Chief of Imperial General Staff, in full dress uniform wait on a saluting base next to a railway carriage. III. Kitchener on board a ship (no clear shot but probably a destroyer) leaving Dover for Calais. He walks on deck. IV. Kitchener in Britain inspecting a New Army battalion, probably of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, volunteer motorcar drivers, and VAD ambulance drivers - this may by as early as 1914.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | William Robert Robertson Kitchener Voluntary Aid Detachment 01/3(4-15).5 British Army 31/3(41) infantry George V Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders King Horatio Herbert | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | War Office | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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