MIKE GUERRA 437,533 views. Instead of steaming directly out into the North Sea, following the sea lanes regularly patrolled by mine-sweeping vessels, the Hampshire was to sail into the Pentland Firth, then to turn north, hugging the western coast of the Orkneys and only to head for Russia once it had passed to the north of the islands.There was certainly a reasonable argument for the unusual course, for by early afternoon a fierce storm was blowing from the northeast and the lee of the islands offered some shelter. It was also said that the Hampshire had been carrying vast quantities of gold to be given to the Russians, and later an expedition jointly sponsored by the fabulously wealthy arms dealer Sir Basil Zaharov and the German industrialist Gustav Krupp in the 1930s was said to have recovered good quantities of it.It was only in the late 1960s that the secret records of Admiralty investigations into the sinking of the Hampshire – coming to the pedestrian yet plausible conclusion that the ship had almost certainly struck a mine – were declassified. Should Admiral Jellicoe have insisted that the Hampshire take the unusual course to the west of the Orkneys, instead waiting for the storm to blow itself out? This article was most recently revised and updated by Fitzgerald had saved his boss from a would-be assassin in Cairo railway station and Kitchener had planned to bequeath his 5,000-acre African estate to him. A coroner, summing up an inquest in Yorkshire, wrote that “the deceased seems to have become very depressed after learning of the death of Lord Kitchener, and subsequently to have taken his life”.But it seems to have been something more complicated that stirred Orcadians to raise their memorial. The war would be won, he said, by “the last million men”.The Cabinet table was an odd place for a man who despised politicians. In 1951 he was on film again, leading the pitch invasion at Lords which followed the West Indies cricket team's first victory over England. He moved to Port of Spain in 1943 where he joined the Roving Brigade. As it was, “they died in each other’s arms when the HMS Hampshire struck a mine off Orkney in 1916”, the gay activist Peter Tatchell informed Guardian readers 10 years ago. He was one of the few Trinidadians on the ship - the majority were Jamaican - and he stayed for 14 years. But he did contribute to calypso's tradition of political commentary - speaking out against the government when other calypsonians kept quiet during Trinidad's 1970 black-power revolution. He recognised at once that Britain’s small professional army – vastly outnumbered by the conscript forces of continental Europe – would need to be multiplied in size many times. The casket passed the night in a chapel, draped in a Union flag, with candles burning at each corner. Why?The conspiracy theories refused to die. Thousands of lives had been lost in the doomed Gallipoli adventure, and Kitchener carried the can, too, for a calamitous cock-up in the supply of artillery shells in the spring of 1915. But Orkney was especially affected, she thought: “Dead bodies are being washed up on the shore.
Kitchener was long ago conscripted into the ranks of homosexual history, a gay hero in a less tolerant age.
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