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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael77, post: 585630, member: 10500&quot;]This is a very condense version of a very complex story, so history experts please forgive me.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Churchill - Hamilton connection WW1</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911-1915.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hamilton</b> commanded the Allied Mediterranean Expeditionary Force which was to gain control of the Dardanelles straits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallipoli Campaign / Dardanelles Campaign and others</p><p><br /></p><p>Churchill, proposed a naval attack on the Dardanelles, based in part on erroneous reports of Ottoman troop strength. At the time many MPs, particularly Conservatives, blamed Churchill for the failure of these campaigns. Amid growing Conservative pressure, Prime Minister Asquith agreed to form an all-party coalition government; the Conservatives&#039; one condition of entry was that Churchill be demoted from his position at the Admiralty. Churchill was fired!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty 1939 -1940</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill again was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is speculation on my part, I believe it quite possible that Hamilton gave the captain’s chair as a gift to Churchill, symbolic of his return to Frist Lord of the Admiralty.</p><p><br /></p><p>So Where did Hamilton get the chair….?</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1940, George VI asked Churchill to be prime minister. No one else wanted the job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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