What was Winston Churchill's army rank?

Answer 1

Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland. Also on September 3, Churchill was named First Lord of the Admiralty. This was a political office, the civilian head of the Royal Navy, the equivalent of the then existing cabinet office in the United States of Secretary of the Navy. (The US Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of War, the civilian heads of the Navy and Army, were combined in 1947 into the office of the Secretary of Defense. In Britain the office of First Lord of the Admiralty was abolished in 1964, after more than 300 years). The First Lord was an extremely important position. Britain depended on the Royal Navy for her continued national existence, as an island nation that had to have imports by sea to feed its people and arm its military. Churchill had been active in British politics for decades and was 64 years old when WWII began. Churchill had been First Lord of the Admiralty before, from 1911, before WWI began, until 1915, when WWI had been going on for more than a year. He resigned as First Lord during WWI and accepted responsibility for the failed Gallipolli Campaign, an invasion by sea of Turkey that he had strongly urged. After resigning as First Lord in 1915, Churchill accepted command of a battalion on the Western Front in France (he had been trained as an Army officer by attending Sandhurst, the British equivalent of West Point). After almost a year in Franc he was named Minister of Munitions for the latter part of WWI, in charge of war production of military supplies. During WWII Churchill served as First Lord for about nine months. The civilian head of the government in Britain is the Prime Minister. The existing government lost the confidence of the people and of the King, who asked Churchill to become Prime Minister and to form a coalition government on May 10, 1940. At the same time Churchill also took over the duties of the Minster of War, the civilian head of the Army. Churchill kept both these positions until after Germany was defeated. In Britain, elections can be called almost at any time, and after Germany was beaten - but while the war with Japan was still going on - the British people called an election, and to show their gratitude to the man who saved them and their country, they voted Churchill out of office in July, 1945, about a month before final victory, so he was denied that triumph. Churchill was again Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955, after which he retired, being more than 80 years old. He died in 1964.

Answer 2

Churchill started his military career at the Royal Military College in the Calvary, despite his fathers wishes for infantry. He started as a Second Lieutenant and ended his career as Colonel-in-Chief.

Answer 3

Colonel in the British Army (As pictured with Eisenhower), Air Commodore in the R.A.F. (Teheran) and I do not believe Churchill held a rank in the Royal Navy as all the pictures of him show him with rank-less naval uniforms although he was first lord of the admiralty during the great war.