Unseen Churchill: Rare pictures of Winston from a young man to his state funeral are released to mark 50th anniversary of his death -PHOTOS

  28 January 2015    Read: 1931
Unseen Churchill: Rare pictures of Winston from a young man to his state funeral are released to mark 50th anniversary of his death -PHOTOS
Images of wartime leader Winston Churchill which are unseen in decades have been released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.
The pictures, from the Daily Herald`s archive, include images of Churchill`s state funeral in 1965, have rarely been seen since they were published in the newspaper, the National Media Museum said.

Covering the period from 1911 to the mid-1960s, the archive includes photographs of Churchill from all aspects of his life including his days in the military, the highs and lows of his political career, family pictures, his fondness for animals and even boyhood portraits.
A museum spokesman said; `The prime minister stands defiant, cigar clenched between his teeth, fingers raised in a victory salute.

`As well as some fantastic images of his funeral, there are unusual images of Churchill feeding the albino kangaroo given to him as a gift by the Stockowner`s Association of South Australia, the first image of Churchill (looking battered and bruised) after his car crash in 1931 and an image of him as a six-year-old boy.`





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