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CHURCHILL’S REMINDER RESTORED, KENT

A painting of Dunkirk gifted to Winston Churchill has gone on public display at his former home

No sooner was he installed in office as wartime Prime Minister than Winston Churchill was making his rousing speech, in which he declared “we shall fight them on the beaches” following the evacuation of Dunkirk in May-June 1940.

Now, after painstaking conservation work, a painting depicting some of the 30,000 troops rescued during the evacuation, which was given to Churchill by the son of the