Walter Churchill
| Walter Myers Churchill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 November 1907 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 27 August 1942 (aged 34) Sicily, Italy |
| Buried at | Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
|
| Service/branch |
 Royal Air Force
|
| Years of service | 1932–1942 |
| Rank | Group Captain |
| Service number | 90241 |
| Commands held |
RAF Valley No. 605 Squadron |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Distinguished Service Order Distinguished Flying Cross |
Group Captain Walter Myers Churchill DSO, DFC (24 November 1907 – 27 August 1942) was a Royal Air Force pilot during the Second World War.
Churchill was the elder brother of Peter Churchill and Oliver Churchill, both of whom were Special Operations Executive officers during the Second World War.
His father was William Algernon Churchill (1865–1947), a British Consul who served in Mozambique, Pará in Brazil, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Milan, Palermo, and Algiers. His father was also an art connoisseur, and author of what is still the standard reference work on early European paper and papermaking Watermarks in Paper. His mother was Violet Churchill (née Myers).
Walter was born in Amsterdam in 1907 and named after his uncle Walter Myers, an eminent physician and bacteriologist who died in 1901 aged 28. He was educated at Sedbergh School and in 1926 read Modern Languages at Kings College, Cambridge. He then became an aeronautical engineer with Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Coventry, after which he started an aviation precision engineering company Churchill Components (Coventry) Ltd in 1937 which supplied machined parts such as exhaust values for radial aero-engines to Armstrong-Siddeley. After being blitzed out of Coventry in 1941, the company re-located to Market Bosworth. The company worked for Sir Frank Whittle, the jet-engine pioneer, and it machined compressor blades for the gas-turbine engines in the early 1940s.
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