Lord Kitchener drowned when which ship hit a mine in 1916?
Fritz Joubert Duquesne the British steamship "Tennyson." The insurance companies were reluctant to pay and began their own investigations which would go on for another year. In his book "The Man Who Killed Kitchener", biographer Clement Wood states that Duquesne left for Europe in June 1916 under orders from German intelligence. Duquesne posed as the Russian Duke Boris Zakrevsky and joined Field Marshal Kitchener on "HMS Hampshire" in Scotland. Once on board, Duquesne signaled the German submarine that sank the cruiser, thus killing Lord Kitchener. Duquesne made his own escape using a life raft before the ship was torpedoed and he was rescued
Berlin to Kitchener name change name of the city from Berlin, on June 5, 1916, British war leader Lord Kitchener was killed when his battleship hit a German mine and sank off the coast of Scotland. Kitchener had been popular among the general public, but was a controversial military figure, due to his creation of deadly concentration camps during the Boer War. Kitchener's name was placed on the final list, leaving Brock, Kitchener, Adanac (Canada spelled backwards), Benton, Corona, Keowana as the city's choices. The vote to choose a new name was held on June 28, 1916. "Kitchener" received a total of 346 votes, and