Equestrian statue of Horatio Kitchener, Medway

has description | a une description: The statue of Kitchener was originally erected in Kolkata in 1914. It was then relocated to Khartoum in 1920, before being repatriated to Chatham in 1959 after Sudan had declared its independence from Britain.
has current location | a pour localisation actuelle: Medway; United Kingdom
was classified by | a été inscrite, classée, protégée par le biais de: Grade II
has association with: Statue of Charles Gordon, Gordon's School

depicts | figure: Kitchener, Horatio
shows visual item | présente l'item visuel: man; horse; colonial administrator
consists of | consiste en: bronze
was produced by | a été produit par: March, Sydney

has inscription | a une inscription: KITCHENER
1850-1916; Accompanying plaque:
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, KG, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC, Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers. This statue at one time stood in Khartoum and was unveiled on this site by the Rt Hon Christopher Soames, CBE, MP, Secretary of State for War, on 25 April 1960. Horatio Herbert Kitchener was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1871, much of his early service was in Cyprus and Palestine, and in 1892 he was appointed Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, defeating in 1896 a Dervish force at Dongola. In 1898, in command of all British and Egyptian forces, he avenged the murder of Gordon when he overthrew finally the Dervishes at Atbara and Omdurman. In 1900 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief South African Forces and brought the war there to a successful end in May 1902. Later he was made Commander-in-Chief in India and in 1911 he became Consul-General in Egypt. On 6 August 1914 he was appointed Secretary of State for War and will always be remembered for the part he played in raising the New Volunteers Armies. He was drowned in HMS Hampshire when she sank off the Orkneys on 5 June 1916 bound for Russia.
consists of | consiste en: stone

is referred to by | est référencé par: Historic England; Equestrian Statues; Statues - Hither & Thither; Art UK; Tommy Maddinson, 'Colonial Statues, Public Space and Masculinity in Postcolonial Britain', Cast in Stone blog post, December 12 2023; Tommy Maddinson, 'Repatriating Colonial Statues in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries', Cast in Stone blog post, January 19 2024; Mai Abusalih, 'Memorialisation Within The Deathscapes of Khartoum', Sudan Moves (2021); Mai Abusalih, 'Memorialisation Within The Deathscapes of Khartoum', Sudan Moves (2021) - Wayback Machine; YouTube - Archival footage of the Kitchener and Gordon Statues being removed (1958); 'Statues of Kitchener and Gordon Recently Repatriated from Khartoum', The Royal Engineers Journal, Vol. LXXIII, No. 2 (1959); G.M. Kapur, 'Undated, unidentified, uniformed horseman', My Kolkata (2023)

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was modified by | a été modifié par: 1914, Installation of the Horatio Kitchener statue in Kolkata, India; 1920, Relocation of the Horatio Kitchener statue from India to Sudan; 1920, Installation of the Horatio Kitchener statue in Khartoum, Sudan; 1958, Relocation of the Horatio Kitchener statue from Sudan to the UK; 1959, Re-installation of the statue of Horatio Kitchener in the UK; 2020, Online petition to remove the Horatio Kitchener statue; 2020, Online petition to keep the Horatio Kitchener statue; 2020, Medway Council publishes its report on monuments and place names

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