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Volume 10 - No. 236 - July 5, 1946

His Majesty's Ships - H.M.S. Kite

Jul1946

His Majesty's Ships - H.M.S. Kite

Motto: “Kite Flies to the Stars.” A war-built sloop of 1,735 tons, H.M.S. Kite was senior officer's ship of the celebrated Second Escort Group, commanded by Captain F. J. Walker, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.

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Our War Leaders in Peacetime - Churchill

Jul1946

Our War Leaders in Peacetime - Churchill

Born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, in 1874, the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill (third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough), the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, O.M., C.

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