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Australia: First World War: Kitchener Memorial "Honour the Brave"

Australia: First World War: Kitchener Memorial "Honour the Brave"Australia: First World War: Kitchener Memorial "Honour the Brave"
Form: Circular holed at 12 o’clock
By: ?
Date: 1916
Ref:  Carlisle: 1916/11; Laidlaw: 0273;
Variations:
SizeMetalMassValue
23.8 mmBronze4.7 gm$8

Edge: Plain.

Obverse: Bareheaded bust of Kitchener in uniform, right. Legend on a band above: "HONOUR THE BRAVE" and below between stops: "IN OUR MEMORY HE LIVES".

Reverse: "KITCHENER'S COMMAND (in an arc) / TO US ALL / CARRY ON / SOLDIER & MAN / CLOSED / HIS LIFE / * JUNE 5TH. 1916 * (in an arc)".

Notes: Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850 - 1916) was Chief of Staff in the initial stages of the Boer War and succeeded Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief during the guerrilla phase.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War. Kitchener was killed on 5 June 1916 when the armoured cruiser, HMS Hampshire, taking him to negotiations in Russia was sunk by a German mine.