![]() ![]() Jack found himself assigned as Major, and second-in-command of No. After which, he was one of the very first volunteers for the newly-formed Commandos. Jack was recalled to the army at the outbreak of war, served with distinction at Dunkirk and got himself an M.C. agreed to disagree and Jack resigned his commission. His career in the peacetime army came to a screeching halt ten years later when Jack and his C.O. Following his formal education at the Dragon School, Oxford and King William’s College, Isle of Man, then RMC Sandhurst, he obtained a regular army commission in the Manchester Regiment in 1926. Unlike so many of the men he commanded, Jack came from a pretty well-heeled Oxfordshire family. Jack will always be with me because he will be part of my life something that will last and never fade. "It has been over sixty-three years since this author served under the command of Jack, but to this day it is impossible to think of the man without prefacing my reverie with some kind of exclamation such as: Whew! or My God! and I have to stop thinking about this larger-than-life character or else I wouldn’t get anything done during the day or sometimes, night. Lieutenant Colonel Churchill remained OC until he was also taken prisoner during Operation Flounced on the island of Brac in 1944.Īn account by Bob Bishop No 2 Commando from his history of No 2: 2 Commando *, their previous OC, Lt Col Newman, having been taken prisoner of war at St Nazaire. On the 1st July 1942, and now Lieutenant Colonel, 'Jack' Churchill M.C. assumed command of No. ![]() Wounded during Operation Archery at Vaagso 27 December 1941. After a brief spell as 2i/c No 5 Commando, the then Major John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill (later affectionately known by some as Mad Jack) moved to 2i/c No 3 Commando. ![]()
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