Career
Kitchener joined the British Army in 1866 and was commissioned into the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot before joining the newly created Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry when it was founded in 1881. From July 1876 until July 1878 he served as garrison instructor at the Curragh Camp in Ireland and in 1879 he was appointed the Instructor in military topography at the Royal Military College a post he held until August 1886. He saw his first action in Burma with the British Army where he was Chief transport officer of the Field Force"s during the Manipur Expedition in 1891.
His was posted to Jamaica in December 1898 where he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for the British colony before receiving his final posting in the Army when he was appointed commander of the Depot for the West India Regiment.
He retired from the Army in 1903 with the rank Colonel. After retiring he remained in Jamaica where he was a property owner and he got involved in local politics and contested the Street Andrew Parish in the Legislative Council elections but was not elected.
With the outbreak of the First World War he was recalled to the Army and was posted to take up a command post in South West Africa and he was also put in command of a British Expeditionary Force sent to fight the Germans in East Africa. In 1918 he left Jamaica to return to Britain.
After the war he moved to Kenya where he was active in encouraging the settlement of War veterans in the British colony and he also developed a number of Flax-producing estates in the colony.
Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, Viscount Broome (17 October 1878 – 13 June 1928)
Lady Nora Fanny Kitchener (1882 – 10 May 1919).