Jack churchill brother of winston

British Army officer (1906–1996)

For other people named Jack Churchill, see Jack Churchill (disambiguation).

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. He has been mythologised as having also used a longbow, but according to an interview given by Churchill, the bow was destroyed when run over by a lorry before he could put it to use.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Churchill was born in Colombo, British Ceylon,^[1] to Alec Fleming Churchill (1876–1961), later of Hove, East Sussex, and Elinor Elizabeth, daughter of John Alexander Bond Bell, of Kelnahard, County Cavan, Ireland, and of Dimbula, Ceylon.

Alec, of a family long settled at Deddington, Oxfordshire, had been District Engineer in the Ceylon C