Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, the poster boy of Britain's World War One effort, was disliked and not respected by his colleagues

​​The iconic Field Marshal Lord Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, the symbol of the British will to victory in the Great War, was drowned off the Orkney Islands on June 5 1916, when the cruiser HMS Hampshire, conveying him on a mission to Russia, was sunk by a German mine.