Walter H. Thompson
Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson BEM (3 December 1890 – 18 January 1978) was the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years between 1921 and 1945, being recalled from semi-retirement running two grocer's shops by a telegram from Churchill reading "Meet me Croydon Airport 4.30pm Wednesday." Although at that time Churchill had no official position in government, as the leading anti-appeaser he was aware of the prevailing risk to his life from assassins (particularly the Nazis) and engaged Thompson to protect him in the pay of £5 per week (UK£ 230 in 2013). On August 22, 1939 Thompson resumed his official duties with Scotland Yard when Churchill rejoined the Cabinet on the outbreak of war. He was with Churchill so much that he was in "perpetual annoyance" to Churchill's wife, Clementine.
Read more about Walter H. Thompson: Career, Death, In Media, Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the words walter and/or thompson:
“A stroke of the pen is better than a stroke of the sword, no?”
—Ernest Pascal, and Walter Lang. Wilhelm (Stanley Andrews)
“She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)