Walter Kitchener Charles Hamilton Fenton, on 27 November 1884 and had five children, including Major Hal Kitchener, a First World War aviator who returned to Bermuda after the war and ran an aviation company on Hinson's Island, previously part of the Prisoner-of-War camp from which Fritz Joubert Duquesne, his uncle's alleged assassin, had escaped during the Second Boer War. Walter Kitchener Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener, KCB (26 May 1858 – 6 March 1912), known as Walter Kitchener, was a British soldier and colonial administrator. He was the youngest son of Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864).
British home army in the First World War was deployed piecemeal, with individual battalions attached to regular brigades. By December, twenty-two infantry battalions, seven yeomanry regiments, one medical and three engineer units had been sent. Because of the mix of home and foreign service personnel and the breaking up of its formations, there was considerable disarray in the Territorial Force which threatened its ability to successfully defend the homeland. In early October, Kitchener further complicated home defence plans by unilaterally abandoning the pre-war strategy. Instead of harassing an invasion at the point of landing and then defeating it as it marched on London, he ordered the territorials to