Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener field marshal stayed in aristocratic houses, the well informed young would ask servants to sleep across their bedroom threshold to impede his entrance". His compulsive objective was sodomy, regardless of their gender. Kitchener's decorations included:<br> British Foreign Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role
British home army in the First World War a widespread belief that the second line would eventually be deployed overseas; many units enlisted only those new recruits who were prepared to accept the Imperial Service Obligation. This belief was officially endorsed in March 1915, by which time third-line units were being raised to take over the responsibility for providing replacement drafts. Officially, a unit would not be sent overseas until its second line was ready to take its place at home, though the reality was different. In late September, Kitchener explained to the senior officers of the 2nd London Division that "not a man will leave...until your second