#OTD 24 January 1965, Sir Winston Churchill passes away.

Today, I wanted to share with you this short story about him, found in the MI9 bulletin (WO 208/3268) regarding an event that occured in the Boer War:

He was in plain clothes, his instinct was to escape. Here was the risk; as he appeared on the top of the wall, shots might ring out. He heaved himself up… his waistcoat hooked onto something … he freed it … he saw a sudden glow in the cupped hands of a sentry lighting his cigarette … He dropped into the garden and crept into some bushes. To his horror, he realised he had left his food tablets, map, and compass on the wrong side of the wall, as a result of which he later suffered considerably.

The moral is still the same: Always Carry Your Escape Aids with You!

This prisoner who escaped in the Boer War later became British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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