Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Memorials

Memorials

• As a British soldier who was lost at sea during the First World War and has no known grave, Kitchener is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Hollybrook Memorial at Southampton, Hampshire.
• The NW chapel of All Souls at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, not normally open to visitors, was rededicated the Kitchener Memorial in 1925. It contains a white marble memorial to Lord Kitchener (with effigy) and is also the last resting place of his aide-de-camp.
• Kitchener's name heads the War Memorial board in the porch of St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Barham, Kent. Kitchener had been a resident of Broome Park in the parish of Barham for the last few years of his life. His name is read out each year at the Remembrance Sunday service in the church.
• Following his death, the town of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, was renamed Kitchener in his honour. Mount Kitchener in the Canadian Rockies was also named in his honour. A memorial to him was erected on the nearby cliffs.
• A popular music-hall song "Kitchener — Gone but not forgotten!" was sung by F V St Clair shortly after his death.
• Earl Kitchener Elementary School is a dual-track (English and French) school of approximately 500 students. It is located in the west end of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, below the Niagara Escarpment. A letter from Lord Kitchener suggests that the motto of the school be "thoroughness".
• Lord Kitchener Elementary School is located on a 2.7–hectare site on the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A frame building was constructed in 1914, and a main building in 1924. Both are still in use in 2007, but likely to be replaced after 2008, as they are not suitable for seismic upgrading.
• In the City of Geelong, Australia, the Kitchener Memorial Hospital was named in his honour. It is now known as Geelong Hospital. The original building is still in use, although it no longer houses patients.
• One of the self-catered halls of residences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (situated in the south of the City), is named after Lord Kitchener (Kitchener House).
• A month after his death, the Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund was set up by the Lord Mayor of London to honour his memory. It was used to aid casualties of the war, both practically and financially; following the war's end, the fund was used to enable university educations for soldiers, ex-soldiers and their sons, a function it continues to perform today.
• The Lord Kitchener Memorial Homes in Chatham, Kent, were built with funds from public subscription following Kitchener's death. A small terrace of cottages, they are used to provide affordable rented accommodation for servicemen and women who have seen active service or their widows and widowers.
• A statue of the Earl mounted on a horse is on Khartoum Road (near Fort Amherst) in Chatham, Kent.
• Oberoi Hotels' premier luxury resort, Wildflower Hall, Shimla in the Himalayas, has named its premier suite the "Kitchener Suite". The resort is a former residence of Lord Kitchener.
• The Kitchener Memorial on Mainland, Orkney, is on the cliff edge at Marwick Head, near the spot where Kitchener died at sea. It is a square, crenulated stone tower and bears the inscription: "This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty. He and his staff perished along with the officers and nearly all the men of HMS Hampshire on 5 June 1916."
• Kitchener is a Senior Boys' house at the Duke of York's Royal Military School where, like Welbeck college, all houses are named after prominent military figures. An officers' mess at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, is also named after him. The other mess on the site is named after Lord Roberts, and are known to the students as either "Kitch" or "Bob's Cafe".
• Kitchener stitch (or grafting, a technique used in knitting to join two pieces of knitted fabric sewing up the live stitches) is named after Lord Kitchener.
• In the early 1920s, a road on a new council estate in the Kates Hill area of Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands) was named Kitchener Road in honour of Lord Kitchener.
• The east window of the chancel at St George's Church, Eastergate, West Sussex has stained glass commemorating Kitchener.
• Kitchener is one of two Field Marshals on the war memorial of the Savage Club, London. The other is Field Marshal The Earl Roberts.