"I seem to recall a certain prime minister who held the appointment between 1940 and 1945 who was fond of wearing light blue, dark blue or green uniform as he felt necessary"
But he did serve.......
cornet (
second lieutenant) in the
4th Queen's Own Hussars on 20 February 1895.
1897, three brigades of the
British Army were going to fight against a
Pashtun tribe in the North West Frontier of India and he asked his superior officer if he could join the fight.
[40] He fought under the command of General Jeffery, the commander of the second brigade operating in
Malakand, in the Frontier region of
British India
1898. on attachment
21st Lancers serving in the
Sudan under the command of General
Herbert Kitchener. While in the Sudan, he participated in what has been described as the last meaningful British
cavalry charge, at the
Battle of Omdurman in September 1898
In 1900 he retired from the regular army, and in 1902 joined the
Imperial Yeomanry, commissioned as a
Captain in the
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars on 4 January 1902.
[56] In April 1905, he was promoted to Major and appointed to command of the Henley Squadron of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
After his resignation from the government in 1915, Churchill rejoined the
British Army, After spending some time as a Major with the 2nd Battalion,
Grenadier Guards, he was appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion,
Royal Scots Fusiliers (part of the
9th (Scottish) Division), on 1 January 1916. During his period of command, Ploegsteert was a "quiet sector," and the battalion did not take part in any set battle. , he exposed himself to danger by making excursions to the front line or into No Man's Land.
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Plus of course he was First Lord of the Admiralty, learnt to fly BEFORE WW1 and was a great supporter to of the RNAS