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 failed attempt in 1910 to create a reserve for the Territorial Force. It was little more than a register of former regular or auxiliary personnel who would be prepared to volunteer should their services be needed. It had no clearly defined role. By 1914, some 200,000 men had registered, though 70 per cent would not or, due to their age, could not perform an active role in home defence. On the outbreak of war, several thousand of the younger reservists enlisted into regular or territorial units on their own initiative. It took three weeks for the government to decide how