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Winston Churchill
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 24 Jan 2005 22:39 |
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Did not realise it was forty years ago - my son sat on a stool glued to the tv so he was only four yrs old - maybe that is when his interest in history began! Ann |
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Joy | Report | 24 Jan 2005 21:14 |
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RIP the "greatest Briton". Joy |
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Andy | Report | 24 Jan 2005 19:21 |
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Funny thing, Churchill. Venerated for his performance in the last war. But both my grandfathers who fought in the Great War hated him with a vehemence. Apparently there was one time when he visited the trenches and seeing the blackened corpses in no man's land said he didn't know we had colonial troops fighting at that time. Another time he started taking potshots with his service revolver that the Germans in the trenches opposite, of course then he left but the shots had drawn fire of the Germans who having got the range gave me troops are good shelling. Maybe he learned. |
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Philip | Report | 24 Jan 2005 19:17 |
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I was in my first year at university, and the day they buried him in January 1965, some friends and I were youth hostelling on the Yorkshire coast, walking along the cliffs between Robin Hood's Bay & Scarborough. Backward facing boots in the stirrups is a symbol of a dead warrior. They did the same thing at JFK's state fueneral 14 months earlier. They also sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic at both funerals. Philip |
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valinkent | Report | 24 Jan 2005 19:13 |
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I remember his funeral. I was living in Didcot Oxfordshire at the time and we went down to the railway station to see the train carrying his coffin go though on its way to Bladon where he is buried. There where lots of people there and the train went slow so that you could see though the carriage his coffin draped in the union jack and the soldiers standing guard . He was a great man . Val |
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Sue | Report | 24 Jan 2005 19:12 |
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His funeral took place on my 16th birthday. I can't believe it was 40 years ago this Sunday. Sue xx |
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Unknown | Report | 24 Jan 2005 18:48 |
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I remember we were all given the day off school for the funeral - I was 7. what still sticks in my mind is the way his boots were attached to the saddle of a riderless horse - but they were facing backwards - and the gun carriage draped in the Union flag. it was so moving - |
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Margaret | Report | 24 Jan 2005 18:43 |
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Just been watching on the telivision 40 years ago Winston Churchill died aged 90 i rememeber it well i was 16 as with a lot of you can as well. Then i decided i would have a look on the 1881 census for him they had lots of servants just think one of your ancesters could have been one of them take a look Margaret |
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