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John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes.
Jennie Churchill with her sons, John and Winston in 1889. He was born at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, where his father, Lord Randolph, was secretary to Jack's grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, then Viceroy of Ireland.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 attack by Arab forces in Jerusalem Hadassah convoy massacre Part of 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine Aftermath of the attack on the convoy. Location Mount Scopus, Jerusalem Date April 13, 1948 ; 76 years ago (1948-04-13) Target Mixed military and medical convoy Weapons Small arms ...
Jack Churchill, placed at Sachsenhausen, later transferred to Tyrol. Johnny Jebsen, British double agent; Peter Churchill, British SOE agent, later transferred to Tyrol. Leo Clasen, a homosexual survivor of the Holocaust who published an account of his ordeal in 1954 under the pseudonym L. D. Classen von Neudegg.
With the capture of Lieutenant Colonel Newman at St Nazaire the commando unit received a new commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill, in April 1942. [15] The commando was sent to the Mediterranean Theatre as part of 2nd Special Service Brigade and in July 1943 landed at Catania during the Allied invasion of Sicily. [25]
Jack Churchill (1906–1996) was a British soldier. Jack Churchill may also refer to: Jack Churchill (1880–1947), brother of Winston Churchill; Jack Churchill, a fictional character created by Mark Chadbourn
Jack Churchill (1906–1996), British World War II lieutenant colonel who fought armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword sword, and carried around bagpipes Mad Jack Fuller (1757–1834), English politician, noted for building a number of follies in Sussex
The river was first surfed in 1955 by World War II veteran Jack Churchill, a Military Cross recipient renowned both for carrying a Scottish broadsword, and for being the only Allied soldier to kill an enemy with a longbow during the war. He became a surfing enthusiast in his later life and rode the bore on a board he designed himself.