Written by: Remoon Gorkhali - 24004, Grade X
Posted on: 11 February, 2022
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill who would later be known as Mad jack who was a British officer who participated in World War 2 with a longbow, bagpipe and claymore. Later he would be called Fighting Jack Churchill or mad jack. He was known for the motto, “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.” Churchill was born in Colombo, British Ceylon. He was known for loving to ride his motorbike. He also worked as a newspaper editor and an actor for some time. He was also known for how good he was with his longbow and how he placed second in the 1938 military piping competition at the Aldershot Tattoo. In 1939, he also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships in Oslo. After Germany attacked Poland John returned to the military and was sent to France in the British Expeditionary Force. He then went on to ambush a German patrol; he and his comrades ambushed the Germans after John pulled out his longbow. Later John volunteered for the newly formed Commandos. Churchill was second in command of the third Commando battalion in Operation Archery on 27 December 1941. After the raft opened he charged ahead of his men playing March of the Cameron Men on his bagpipe before throwing a grenade and charging head first into battle. He received the Military Cross and Bar For his actions at Dunkirk and Vagsoy. He later went on to fight against the Germans, alongside the American rangers. There were only 10 or so men together but they went and captured a whole camp of German soldiers. He later was captured by German soldiers only to later escape again, get captured and escape once more. There was one soldier who said that he had seen John riding his motorbike while using his longbow to attack the Germans. It is also said that when a German general asked his junior commanders about the casualties he said that most of them were injured or killed by arrows. Later John went on to marry and lived until he was 50 he also had a child but before he died he taught in different military schools to raise future generations. He also left a lot of crazy tails behind for us to hear about. He also had received a lot of battle scars on his body.
