"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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Well, so was Winston (Boer War), so was Benito, so were all the Japanese
leaders...


Churchill was a combat veteran, but not in the Boer War. His army career
included fighting at Omdurman in 1898 with the Nile Expeditionary Force.
During the Boer War he was a correspondent for a London newspaper.

I believe Mussolini was conscripted in to the Italian army but was injured
in training and released without ever seeing combat.