Nicknamed 'Fighting Jack Churchill' and 'Mad Jack', he fought in the Second World War with a longbow, a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a bagpipe.Ĭhurchill was born in Colombo, British Ceylon, to Alec Fleming Churchill (1876–1961), later of Hove, East Sussex, and Elinor Elizabeth, daughter of John Alexander Bond Bell, of Kelnahard, County Cavan, Ireland, and of Dimbula, Ceylon.
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer.
