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 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