 Keith Surridge posits that Kitchener's features evoked the harsh, feared militarism of the Germans which bode well for British fortune in the war.Kitchener did not see the end of the war; he died when the cruiser HMS "Hampshire" carrying him and a delegation to Russia struck a German mine and sank in 1916.Leete's drawing of Kitchener was the most famous image used in the British Army recruitment campaign of World War I.