29 January 2015, The Tablet

Churchill’s soldiers


 
Half a century ago, the world was mourning the death of Sir Winston Churchill, whose state funeral took place on 30 January 1965. The pages of The Tablet included a tribute to the former Prime Minister from his first cousin Sir John Randolph Leslie – Shane Leslie – who was received into the Church while at Cambridge University. He wrote about Sir Winston’s early years and recalled how they played with the future war leader’s army of tin soldiers (most of them manufacture
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