| Administrative History | Kitchener acted as Consul-General in Egypt from 1911. Lt Col Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald was Kitchener's aide-de-camp from 1906 and remained in his personal service until the end, both men drowning in the sinking of HMS Hampshire in 1916. Fitzgerald was to save Kitchener's life in 1912 by shielding him from a would-be assassin. 'Fitzgerald is a cheery bird - all medals and decorations and hard service with a cheery brown face' Source: Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1911-1919, accessed May 2016 |