Finest Hour – July 2019

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LONDON—I read with great interest Fred Glueckstein’s excellent article “Watching Winston: Churchill and His Personal Bodyguards” in FH 183. Inspector Walter Thompson was my great uncle, and he left me 700 pages of his secret notes as well as his literary estate when he died. He was a fasci- nating character and would enchant us every weekend with stories of his time as a Special Branch Officer. I used Walter’s papers to write Beside the Bull- dog for Apollo Publishing in 2003. This book contains less than 1% of Wal- ter’s fantastic life with Churchill; for instance, there were thirteen assassina- tion attempts on Churchill’s life during

Walter’s service—some of these facts have still not been made public. More recently, I have written Walter’s compelling story into a TV drama series and hope to find a production company to take on the script.—Linda Stoker (Smith)

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NASHVILLE—Heartiest congratula- tions on “Churchill’s Monarchs.” The magazine keeps getting better and better! This one was so unusual that it deserves a separate trophy case. —Richard H. Knight

CAPE TOWN—Warm greetings from South Africa! Thank you so much for

the fantastic copy of Finest Hour. Win- ston Churchill is my hero from history so I am very grateful. —James Capstick-Dale

James is eight years old and has already given two public speeches about Chur- chill, which he delivered in English, French, isiXhosa and Afrikaans. Both of his grandfathers served in the Second World War, one in the Tank Corps and one in the RAF. ,

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Finest Hour 183

LONDON—I read with great interest
Fred Glueckstein’s excellent article
“Watching Winston: Churchill and
His Personal Bodyguards” in FH 183.
Inspector Walter Thompson was my
great uncle, and he left me 700 pages
of his secret notes as well as his literary
estate when he died. He was a fasci-
nating character and would enchant
us every weekend with stories of his
time as a Special Branch Officer. I used
Walter’s papers to write Beside the Bull-
dog for Apollo Publishing in 2003. This
book contains less than 1% of Wal-
ter’s fantastic life with Churchill; for
instance, there were thirteen assassina-
tion attempts on Churchill’s life during