National Army Museum

photograph, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.1988-03-97-1

Description

Two photographs showing the presentation of a Sword of Honour by the Corporation of the City of Cape Town to FM Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum and the Vaal, GCB, GCMG, on the occasion of a South African Dinner at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, London, 31 Jul 1902. Kitchener is seated on the centre left of the photograph. The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Sir J C Dimsdale Bart, MP is in the chair. Photograph taken by Fradelle and Young, 31 Jul 1902. Mounted. Associated with the Boer War.

Campaigns

Boer War (1899-1902)

People

Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC, (1850 - 1916)

Dimsdale Bart, J C

Fradelle and Young

Dimensions

Width: 35.5 cm Length: 22.25 cm Part 1: 43 cm Part 1: 53

Inscriptions

Printed on mount, below photograph: ‘283 REGENT STREET, W. COPYRIGHT RESERVED FRADELLE & YOUNG, PHOTOGRAPHERS’. Printed on mount below photograph: ‘The South African Dinner, and Presentation of the Sword of Honour from the Corporation of the City of Capetown, / To General, Viscount Kitchener, of Khartoum and the Vaal, GCB, GCMG / Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, London, July 31st 1902 / The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir J C Dimsdale Bart, M.P. in the chair. Mr Wm Garland Soper, Hon. Sec. & Treasurer.’