Oliver Churchill was the younger brother of Walter Churchill and Peter Churchill.
12 Facts About Oliver Churchill
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Oliver Churchill was educated at Stowe School and Cambridge University where he read Modern Languages at King's College, after which he studied architecture at Cambridge before his studies were interrupted by the war.
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Oliver Churchill was briefed: Little was known of the situation in Corfu.
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Oliver Churchill did not recognise the coast, and thought we had sailed in a circle and were off Albania.
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Oliver Churchill was then transferred to a ship and taken to Brindisi where he was debriefed by Captain De Haan at the Italian SOE base at the Allied Military Mission, before being instructed by Cmdr Gerry Holdsworth, Commander of No 1 Special Force, to return to base at SOE Headquarters in Cairo.
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Oliver Churchill had twisted his ankle during the parachute landing on the steep terrain and took shelter in a farmhouse in Esine near Cividate Camuno for a few days to recuperate before climbing up a steep mountain path to a remote farm building above Esine, which was unlikely to be discovered by German patrols.
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Oliver Churchill remained with the Fiamme Verdi for about four weeks as it was considered unsafe for him to go too, but became convinced that nothing would be achieved unless he went to Milan, and wrote to see whether this could be arranged.
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Oliver Churchill received a reply from General Cadorna saying that, under no circumstances should he go as conditions were far too difficult and dangerous.
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Oliver Churchill was based in Milan with partisans of different factions.
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Oliver Churchill made trips to Biella to meet Major Alistair MacDonald, leader of the Cherokee Mission and Turin to meet other partisan leaders, narrowly missing capture on some of these visits.
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Oliver Churchill then crossed the frontier over the mountains on foot and after meetings with SOE representatives John Birkbeck in Lugano and Jock McCaffery in Berne he returned to the SOE Italy base in Monopoli, where he remained until being recalled to the UK on 27 January 1945 to report on recent operations and be awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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Oliver Churchill's eldest son, Toby, is a leading disabled entrepreneur in the UK who founded a company manufacturing communication aids for people who cannot speak.