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Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill DSO TD
- Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill DSO TD (4 February 1880 – 23 February 1947), known as Jack Churchill, [a] was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and the brother of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill.
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Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill DSO TD (4 February 1880 – 23 February 1947), known as Jack Churchill, was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and the brother of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill.
- 23 February 1947 (aged 67)
- St. Martin's Churchyard Bladon, West Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England
- British
- John Strange Spencer-Churchill, 4 February 1880, Dublin, Ireland
Sep 10, 2017 · It is small wonder that for all of his lifetime Jack Churchill, Sir Winston’s only sibling, remained an enigma. He has been shrouded in a whispering campaign that he was not a Churchill at all and any one of six different men have been cited as being his “real” father.
Feb 4, 2019 · Lord Randolph married an American, Jennie Jerome, and they are the parents of the late Sir Winston Churchill and his brother John, known in the family as Jack. Sir Winston Churchill dropped Spencer from his surname, because as a boy, attending Harrow Public School, when the boys were lined up for an event, he was last, due to ‘S’ being so ...
Jack's younger brother, Thomas Churchill, also served with and led a commando brigade during the war. After the war, Thomas wrote a book, Commando Crusade, that details some of the brothers' experiences during the war. Their youngest brother, Robert, also known as 'Buster', served in the Royal Navy and was killed in action in 1942.
- 1926–1936, 1939–1959
- British Army
Jack Churchill’s younger brother, Tom, also became a Manchesters officer, and in time would rise to major general, retiring in 1962. His younger brother, called Buster, opted for the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm and died for his country off Malta during the fierce fighting of Operation Pedestal.
Aug 1, 2013 · The myth that Winston’s brother John (“Jack,” 1880-1947) was illegitimate has persisted since publication of Shane Leslie’s “Randolph Churchill 1849-1895” in Leslie’s Men Were Different (London: Michael Joseph, 1937, pp. 68-75).
Jack and his brothers, Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill (1907–1990) and Robert Alec Farquhar Churchill (1911 – 1942) would all achieve fame through their exploits in WWII.
