1. Jack Churchill has been mythologised as having 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.
17 Facts About Jack Churchill
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Jack Churchill was born in Colombo, British Ceylon, to Alec Fleming Jack Churchill, later of Hove, East Sussex, and Elinor Elizabeth, daughter of John Alexander Bond Bell, of Kelnahard, County Cavan, Ireland, and of Dimbula, Ceylon.
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Jack Churchill was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man.
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Jack Churchill graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1926 and served in Burma with the Manchester Regiment.
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Jack Churchill left the army in 1936 and worked as a newspaper editor in Nairobi, Kenya, and as a male model.
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Jack Churchill took second place in the 1938 military piping competition at the Aldershot Tattoo.
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Jack Churchill resumed his commission after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and was assigned to the Manchester Regiment, which was sent to France in the British Expeditionary Force.
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Jack Churchill gave the signal to attack by raising his broadsword.
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However, Jack Churchill later said that his bows had been crushed by a lorry earlier in the campaign.
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Jack Churchill led the men and prisoners back down the pass, with the wounded being carried on carts pushed by German prisoners.
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Jack Churchill commented that it was "an image from the Napoleonic Wars".
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Jack Churchill received the Distinguished Service Order for leading that action at Salerno.
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Jack Churchill later walked back to the town to retrieve his sword, which he had lost in hand-to-hand combat with the German regiment.
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Jack Churchill organized a "motley army" of 1,500 Partisans, 43 Commando and one troop from 40 Commando for the raid.
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Jack Churchill died on 8 March 1996 at 89 years old, in the county of Surrey.
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In March 2014, the Royal Norwegian Explorers Club published a book that featured Jack Churchill, naming him as one of the finest explorers and adventurers of all time.
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Jack Churchill married Rosamund Margaret Denny, the daughter of Sir Maurice Edward Denny and granddaughter of Sir Archibald Denny, on 8 March 1941.