Description:Notice for the Memorial Service for Lord Kitchener which was held at St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham on Tuesday 13th June 1916. The Lord Mayor overseeing proceedings was Neville Chamberlain, later to be British Prime Minister at the outset of the Second World War.
Kitchener was on board the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire for his diplomatic mission to Russia when, on 5 June 1916, en route to the Russian port of Arkhangelsk, Hampshire struck a mine during a Force 9 gale and sank west of the Orkney Islands. Kitchener, his staff, and 643 of the crew of 655 were drowned or died of exposure. His body was never found.