Jack Churchill

Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill (4 February 1880 – 23 February 1947) was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and the brother of Sir Winston Churchill. although that was mostly discredited due to his striking resemblance with his father and brother.

Career Boer War, wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, including Churchill. The Graphic 1900 Churchill was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1898. He served in the South African Light Horse alongside his war correspondent brother in the Second Boer War in 1899–1900. He was shot through the leg in February 1900, during the Battle of the Tugela Heights, part of the campaign for the relief of Ladysmith. The following month he returned for duty. For his service, he was mentioned in dispatches.

He fought in World War I, where he was again mentioned in dispatches. He served on the staff of Field Marshal Sir John French, General Sir Ian Hamilton (serving as Naval Liaison Officer for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force) and General Birdwood (serving as Camp Commandant, 1st Anzac Corps, and then as Assistant Military Secretary at the headquarters of the Fifth Army). After the war, he became a businessman in the City of London

During World War II, after the widowed Churchill lost his house during the Blitz, he lived in 10 Downing Street (where he used the bedrooms on the top floor formerly used by his brother Winston and his wife) or in the No 10 Annex.

Personal life 187x187px On 8 August 1908, Churchill married Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary "Goonie" Bertie (20 November 1885 – 7 July 1941), the daughter of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon, and Gwendoline Mary Dormer. Lady Gwendoline had been raised as a Roman Catholic. Churchill and his wife had three children:

John George Spencer-Churchill (1909–1992) Henry Winston "Peregrine" Spencer-Churchill (1913–2002), who married Yvonne Henriette Mary Jehannin (1924–2010). aged 67, of heart disease. He is buried near his parents and brother (who outlived him for 18 years) at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.