WINSTON CHURCHILL – WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE – REWARD £25

ABOUT

This alarming headline was widely distributed in November 1899 after Churchill’s capture by a Boer commando and subsequent daring escape.

Rodney Grosskopff will describe how a young Winston Churchill in his days in the British Army working as a war correspondent for The Morning Post, was captured from a derailed armoured train by a Boer commando. Both Jan Smuts and the formidable Louis Botha were present when he was taken into custody.

After the Boer Wars, Churchill went on to forge notable friendships with both men.

We will then learn how Churchill escaped from the State Model School in Pretoria and eventually, from the safety of Lourenço Marques, made his way to Durban by boat to a hero’s welcome.

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