Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener NPG x196885

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano, published by P. Scopes & Co Ltd

Kitchener was the epitome of the imperialist military general, who commanded the British army in Egypt, the Sudan, India and in South Africa during the Boer War (1899-1902). As Secretary of State for War from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he converted the small British army into a military machine of three million men and his image was used for the iconic army recruitment campaign with the slogan: 'Your country needs you'. It was based on Bassano's photograph of Kitchener,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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