Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Group including Hubert Ion Wetherall Hamilton, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Raymond John Marker, Francis Aylmer Maxwell and William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood NPG x193209

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

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.