Churchill after appendectomy is helped by his detective W. H. Thompson to the eve of the poll meeting in his Dundee November 1922


In October 1922 Lloyd George's Government fell from power and a General Election was called. Churchill was taken ill with appendicitis , and when he spoke in his constituency in Dundee on the eve of the poll, he was still in considerable pain from the operation. On Churchill's left is his detective, Thompson.


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