[2] 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.

[4] 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.

[5] He left Cape Town on board the SS Dunvegan Castle in late June 1902,[6] and arrived at Southampton the next month.

[7] In late 1902 he was posted to British India, where on 14 November 1902 he took up the command of the Lahore Division (Mecan Meer District).

[8] He was appointed Governor and military Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, a strategic Imperial fortress colony (now described as a British Overseas Territory) in the North Atlantic Ocean with a disproportionately large garrison, effective 31 October 1908 (with Lieutenant Octavius Henry Lothian Nicholson, D.S.O., The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), as his Aide-de-camp),[9][10] serving until his death in Hamilton following complications from an operation for appendicitis.