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