Statue équestre d'Horatio Kitchener, Medway

has description | a une description: La statue de Kitchener a été érigée à Kolkata en 1914. Elle a ensuite été déplacée à Khartoum en 1920, avant d'être rapatriée à Chatham en 1959 après que le Soudan eut déclaré son indépendance vis-à-vis de la Grande-Bretagne.
has current location | a pour localisation actuelle: Medway; United Kingdom
has association with: Statue de Charles Gordon, Gordon's School

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

has inscription | a une inscription: KITCHENER
1850-1916; Plaque d'accompagnement :
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: pierre

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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Contenus avec " has association with : Equestrian statue of Horatio Kitchener, Medway "
Statue de Charles Gordon, Gordon's School

was modified by | a été modifié par: 1914, Installation de la statue d'Horatio Kitchener à Kolkata, Inde; 1920, Transfert de la statue d'Horatio Kitchener de l'Inde au Soudan; 1920, Installation de la statue d'Horatio Kitchener à Khartoum, Soudan; 1958, Transfert de la statue de Horatio Kitchener du Soudan au Royaume-Uni; 1959, Réinstallation de la statue d'Horatio Kitchener au Royaume-Uni; 2020, Pétition en ligne pour enlèver la statue de Horatio Kitchener; 2020, Pétition en ligne pour préserver la statue de Horatio Kitchener; 2020, Le conseil municipal de Medway publie son rapport sur les monuments et les noms de lieux

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