Kitchener Survives: The Insurance Policy July 27, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The claim that Lord Kitchener had survived death seems to have been well established by December 1916. By 1917 the story rumbled through the spring and summer building up a head of steam until it quite unexpectedly entered the real world. In early September 1917 Lloyds opened an insurance policy, really a bet, that Kitchener […]
Kitchener’s Sword June 2, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Beach has previously celebrated the (entirely unrealistic) myths about Kitchener’s survival from a shipwreck in June 1916. There were a number of theories: namely that the Germans had got him; that Kitchener had been kidnapped in Russia or was secretly helping the Russian army reorganise (perhaps he was killed in the revolution?); or some version […]
Kitchener Survives: Friend of a Friend May 15, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
One of the great British catastrophes of the Great War was the death of Lord Kitchener on the HMS Hampshire in the North Sea 5 June 1916, not a month before the Battle of the Somme began. Kitchener, famous as British Secretary of War was a ruthless and effective warleader and understandably British public opinion […]
