Background
He was the youngest son of Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864).
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He was the youngest son of Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and his wife Frances Anne Chevallier (1826–1864).
Initially commissioned an unattached Sub-Lieutenant, he joined the 14th Foot (later the West Yorkshire Regiment) in 1877. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as a transport officer to the Kabul Field Force and took part in the first Battle of Charasiah and the battle of Karez Meer. Kitchener also saw action in the Chardeh Valley.
During the war Frederick was made director of Transport during the 1898 Nile expedition and advance on Khartoum.
He was appointed commander of the Kordofan force and took part in the Battle of Omdurman which resulted in the recapture of Khartoum which had been captured by Mahdist"s during the Siege of Khartoum in 1885. He was appointed Khartoum’s Military governor after it came under Anglo-Egyptian control.
In 1899 Kitchener was appointed to the staff of Sir Redvers Buller in South Africa and took part in attempts to relieve Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. During the latter part of the war he commanded troops in Western Transvaal, and following the announcement of peace on 31 May 1902, he supervised the surrender of arms in that area.
He left Cape Town on board the Steamship Dunvegan Castle in late June 1902, and arrived at Southampton the next month.
In late 1902 he was posted to British India to serve on the staff commanding the Lahore Division. On 31 October 1908 he was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of Bermuda, serving until his death in Hamilton following complications from an operation for appendicitis. Kitchener married Caroline Louisa Fenton, daughter of Major Charles Hamilton Fenton, on 27 November 1884 and had five children, including Major Hal Kitchener, a First World War aviator who returned to Bermuda after the war and ran an aviation company on Hinson"s Island, previously part of the Prisoner-of-War camp from which Fritz Joubert Duquesne, his uncle"s alleged assassin, had escaped during the Second Boer War.