Post on 12-May-2015
Winston Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father
Jennie Churchill, his motherf
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly – but at a distance.”
Winston Churchill was born in 30 November 1874, at Blenheim Palace. In
this picture he was 8.
Blenheim Palace
Jennie and her two sons, Jack Churchill (9 in this picture) and Winston Churchill (14).
Mrs. Everest. Winston’s nanny
Cadet Register of 1894 (when Churchill was 20)
Churchill as a soldier. Fought on Cuba, India, Sudan and South Africa
Churchill’s book about the Battle of Omdurman, in Sudan
Derailed train in which Churchill was held prisoner, South Africa
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, Churchill’s book about his South African
adventures.
1 October 1900 (age 26), he won the elections as a member of the Conservative
Party
Meeting of Colonial Prime Ministers, London 8 May 1907
Winston and his wife “I am so much centered in my politics, that I often feel I must be a dull
companion, to anyone who is not in the trade too.”
Churchill when he was the First Lord of the Admiralty, 24 October 1911
Winston rejoined the army and fought in the trenches of the Western front in France
Churchill inspecting British forces in Cologne (France) as Secretary of State for
War
Churchill was defeated in 1922. In 1924 joined the conservatives again
Churchill arrives at the Admiralty on September 4, 1939. He was back again
after ten year in the wilderness.
Churchill when he became Prime Minister on 10 May, 1940
Churchill during a German air raid in London
Churchill’s underground War Room
Churchill and Roosevelt meet in Newfoundland 1941
Churchill at Cairo, 20 August 1942
General Giraud, General De Gaulle, Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca 24 January 1943
On November 30, 1943, while in Teheran Churchill celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday
The Big Three at Yalta on 12 April 1945
Truman, Stalin and Churchill at Potsdam
Churchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day 1945
Churchill swamped by crowds during the 1945 general elections
14 June 1954, he became Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill Painting in the south of France, for his last years painting was his main
relaxation.
Churchill’s funeral took place in London on January 30, 1965