This street was named in honour of Field Marshal, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, who was a senior British Army Officer who fought during the Boer War. According to the National Army Museum website he became a household name during the Conquest of the Soudan . Kitchener later became the Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of State for War at the beginning of the Great War. He lost his life when the ship he was aboard sank on June 5, 1916. Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC.
Part of a small group of streets off Donegall Road which commemorate British colonial expeditions and rule in Egypt and Sudan, including Nubia Street, Meridi Street, Kitchener Drive and Soudan Street.
“That on the application of the owners, the Martin Estates Company Ltd, two new streets on their property situate off Donegall Road be named Kitchener Street and Loudan Street and three new streets on their property, situate off Agincourt Avenue, Collingwood Avenue, Cadogan Street and Curzon Street. (12th October 1898).”
Kitchener is first listed in the BPU Directory for 1899.