My word, talk about Homer nodding.
Kitchener died in June 1916, when HMS Hampshire struck a
mine off Orkney, having just left Scapa Flow to take him and a
small staff to Russia on a military mission. All his staff, and
most of Hampshire's crew were drowned.
Of course there were casualties at Omdurman, but I don't think
that anyone amongst the 'nobs' on either side were killed (This
is not to belittle those who died on both sides, but I make the
point merely because Kitchener was specifically mentioned. The
Mahdi himself, Khalifa Abdullah, having escaped after the battle,
was killed in what is now South Sudan, about 14 months later.
Alastair Wilson
On 16/06/2016 11:47, john wrote:
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Hello,
As I am about to put - at last - The Jungle Books on
the literature curriculum for our undergraduate class next
year, I bought a copy of the Penguin Classics Hardback edition
(2014) at Waterstones in Scarborough. Now, I must have missed
something on this mailing list, as I was rather surprised to
see that in the chronology, p. ix, the first entry for the
year 1898 reads 'Kitchener killed at Omdurman'. Do I live on a
distant planet?
Best,
John Seriot
