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Trin Tragula posted:

Back to Churchill: after the Gallipoli campaign failed miserably he was gradually shut out of government. He subsequently resigned, re-joined the Army, and after a little string-pulling he went to the Western Front as a battalion commander. In about four months at the front in early 1916, he personally led over 30 trench raids.

During the Second Boer War, he was working as a war correspondent for a British paper, and was accompanying a British unit on a train when it was ambushed by the Boers, and he was taken prisoner and held at a POW camp in Pretoria. He escaped after about a month by the simple expedient of prying up a floorboard, hiding under the floor, and making a run for it when the guards left to go searching the streets for him. He covered the 300 miles to Mozambique in 9 days, and then decided to join a South African calvary unit.

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