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Kitchener Memorial

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Kitchener Memorial
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What is recorded here

This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty. He and his staff perished along with the offic

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Recorded date
1926

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