 On 5 June 1916, Kitchener was making his way to Russia on to attend negotiations with Tsar Nicholas II when the ship struck a German mine west of Orkney, Scotland, and sank.Kitchener was among 737 who died.Kitchener was born in Ballylongford near Listowel, County Kerry, in Ireland, son of army officer Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and Frances Anne Chevallier (d. 1864; daughter of John Chevallier, a priest, of Aspall Hall, and his third wife, Elizabeth, "née" Cole).