Although Winston Churchill fought on the NW Frontier and at the battle of Omdurman, became a prisoner in the Boer War, commanded a battalion in the trenches of

Although Winston Churchill fought on the NW Frontier and at the battle of Omdurman, became a prisoner in the Boer War, commanded a battalion in the trenches of WWI, and took many international trips during WWII ... http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/64331767768/historical-trivia-churchills-combat-experience http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/64331767768/historic... his closest brush with death came in New York in 1931, when he stepped out into traffic looking the wrong way, and was hit by a taxi ... http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-136/my-new-york-misadventure http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/fin...