Jack Churchill


LieutenantColonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Jack Churchill, DSO amp Bar, MC amp Bar was a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a baskethilted Scottish broadsword.

Churchill was born in Ceylon. Both his father, Alec Fleming Churchill, and grandfather, John Fleming Churchill, served in the Ceylon Civil Service. Soon after Churchills birth, the family returned to Surrey, where his younger brother, Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill was born . In 1910, the Churchills moved to Hong Kong when Alec Fleming Churchill was appointed as Director of Public Works in Hong Kong. The Churchills third and youngest son, Robert Alec Farquar Churchill, was born in Hong Kong in 1911. The family returned to England in 1917.

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