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The shrapnel that ‘rewrote British history’: Historic pictures show Churchill on the front line in WWI and reveal shell that almost killed him

Rare snaps show Churchill in the heart of the Western Front in the full horror of the frontline trench warfare

RARE photos of Winston Churchill during World War One have been revealed for the first time.

The former Prime Minister - who led Britain to victory in the Second World War - is seen in in the heart of the Western Front where he was almost killed by shrapnel from an artillery shell.

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Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in uniform at the front near Ypres in northern France, his whiskey hip flask (top right), and a piece of shrapnel that narrowly missed him

Black and white snaps show him posing with fellow officers at the front near Ypres in northern France in new book Churchill in the Trenches, by retired House of Fraser Chairman Nigel Dewar Gibb, 84.

It is based on the experiences of his father, Major Andrew Dewar Gibb, who from January 5, 1916, served alongside Churchill in the 6th Service Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.

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