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 its deployment to France at the end of May. Second-line units were required to continue providing replacement drafts to the first line until the third line became effective. Throughout its time as part of the home defences, battalion strengths in the 2nd South Midland Division fluctuated considerably. The division was still only at two-thirds strength when it fought in the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916. In May 1915, Kitchener informed the War Cabinet that the second line was so denuded of trained men as to render it unreliable for home defence. Promises made that month to General Sir Leslie