"Kitchener Survives: The Insurance Policy " Topic

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Tango01

09 Aug 2017 9:47 p.m. PST

"The claim that Lord Kitchener had survived death seems to have been well established by December 1916. By 1917 the story rumbled through the spring and summer building up a head of steam until it quite unexpectedly entered the real world. In early September 1917 Lloyds opened an insurance policy, really a bet, that Kitchener was still alive. What is fascinating is how many people took a flutter…"
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