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Walter H. Thompson
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1890 – 1978
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Who was Walter H. Thompson?
Walter Henry Thompson BEM was a British police officer who is best known as the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years, between 1921 and 1935, and between 1939 and 1945 during World War II. Thompson reportedly saved Churchill's life on numerous occasions. When he finally retired after the war, he published a memoir that made him famous in the UK and in the US.
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- Born
- Dec 3, 1890
United Kingdom - Also known as
- Walter Thompson
- Died
- Jan 18, 1978
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on July 23, 2013
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