He was known as Mad Jack and Fighting Jack Churchill during WWII. They were nicknames he earned as an English soldier fighting for the duration of the conflict. After a term of duty in the army he left for private life in 1936, but as Germany invaded Poland he quickly re-enlisted choosing duty as a commando, not because of what a commando did (of which he had no idea) but instead because it sounded dangerous.
A soldier with his own views of what it took to be a soldier, he carried bagpipes, longbow and claybeg throughout the war. At one point during the war near L'Epinette, France he signaled his soldiers to attack by firing barbed arrows, felling the German Feldwebel (sergeant). In this action he became the only British soldier to have killed an enemy with a longbow in WWII -- proving that the effectiveness of a technology has nothing to do with its age.
-Professor Walter
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