18 OCTOBER 2008, Page 22

A minor error

Sir: Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 11 October) wrote Lord Kitchener off too soon. It might have been he who headed the force that relieved Khartoum from the Mahdi’s siege, but it was General Gordon who was dispatched by the fuzzy-wuzzies two days before that relief arrived. Kitchener died 31 years later when HMS Hampshire was hit by a mine off the Orkneys and sank.

Nigel Milliner

Tregony, Cornwall