Death. Kitchener's influence declined following the 1915 'shell crisis' and the failed Dardanelles expedition, an operation he had supported in cabinet. Dispatched to Russia on a fact-finding mission, he drowned on 5 June 1916 when his vessel HMS 'Hampshire' struck a mine off Orkney.

Which ship did Lord Kitchener die on?

He died when the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire sank in a storm off the Orkneys on 5 June. The powerful ship had long since left its escorting destroyers behind as the captain took the fatal decision to press on at full speed north to Russia.

What was Lord Kitchener in charge of?

Lord Horatio Kitchener (1850 - 1916)

In 1871, he joined in the Royal Engineers. He took part in the unsuccessful operation to relieve General Charles Gordon at Khartoum in 1884-1885, and in 1886 was appointed governor general of eastern Sudan. Six years later served he became commander in chief of the Egyptian army.