campaign medal with clasp, and, "in despatches,"
Brigadier-General Jeffreys praises "the courage and resolution of
Lieutenant W. L. S. Churchill, Fourth Hussars, with the force as
correspondent of the _Pioneer_."

From the operations around Malakand, he at once joined Sir
William Lockhart as orderly officer, and with the Tirah Expedition
went through that campaign.

For this his Indian medal gained a second clasp.

This was in the early part of 1898. In spite of the time taken up as
an officer and as a correspondent, he finished his book on the
Malakand Expedition and then, as it was evident Kitchener would
soon attack Khartum, he jumped across to Egypt and again as a
correspondent took part in the advance upon that city.

Thus, in one year, he had seen service in three campaigns.

On the day of the battle his luck followed him. Kitchener had
attached him to the Twenty-first Lancers, and it will be
remembered the event of the battle was the charge made by that
squadron. It was no canter, no easy "pig-sticking"; it was a fight to
get in and a fight to get out, with frenzied followers of the Khalifa
hanging to the bridle reins, hacking at the horses' hamstrings, and
slashing and firing point-blank at the troopers. Churchill was in
that charge. He received the medal with clasp.

Then he returned home and wrote "The River War." This book is
the last word on the campaigns up the Nile. From the death of