Broome Park

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Lord Kitchener (1850 - 1916) ~ Lived at Broome Park and was probably best known for his famous recruitment posters bearing his heavily moustachioed face and pointing hand over the legend, 'Your country needs you'. As secretary of state for war at the beginning of World War I Kitchener organized armies on an unprecedented scale and became a symbol of the national will to win. He was killed in 1916 when HMS Hampshire was sunk by a German mine while taking him to Russia.

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