WINSTON CHURCHILL SERVED IN BANGLORE AS ARMY MAN.

The Great Winston Churchill was a Second Lieutenant in British Army at a salary of 450 sterling,posted at Banglore. WINSTON CHURCHILL. (1874 to 1965.) He saw military action in India. He was a good polo-player. He was transferred and served in India in 1896 to 98 end, to fight the Afghan war. He was a second Lieutenant. He was responsible for Afghan war where his squad was made to retreat. He was thereafter posted in the South Regiment at Bangalore. It is over 60 years that British army rolled out of Bangalore cantonment but the city and especially the Russell market still remembers Churchill. It is popularly said that a thousand VIPs have come and gone but the one Bangalore remembers best is Churchill who lived in winding lanes of Langford gardens. A home owner has a yellowed receipt which shows one Kasam tailor to W.Kurtill esq. for Rs. 4 towards the cost of tailoring a pair of breeches. (name is not properly spelled due to native illiteracy.) Churchill did live in Bangalore is beyond doubt. The proof lies in the moth eaten records of United services club. There is a remark : “Lieutenant W.L.S. Churchill is not to be permitted to sign chits anymore, having defaulted in making his payments to the club.” A princely sum of Rs.13 due from him has remained unpaid till this date.