Memory lane

Believe it. Yet don’t. Check it out.
Is it true Winston Churchill was an expert layer in early life in the 19th century?
Is it true he was The Pioneer war correspondent in the north-west frontier of India in early 1890s around Peshwar?
The Pioneer, the top British paper during the Raj, sold for four annas or 25 paise per copy while other British-owned paper sold for two paise or one anna. Published then from Allahabad, moved overnight to Lucknow later without missing a day’s publication or edition.
Later Sir Winston, the King’s First Lord of the Treasury (the title on the door of No.10 Downing Den), the war-time hero who saw the nation’s Finest hour in the challenge it faced when England was down in the dumps in World War II with Hitler’s warplanes bombed London and the rest of Britain. The man who said he was not around to preside over the liquidation of the Empire, least of all lose the Jewel in the Crown. Not give 400 million of Indians their freedom at the end of the war.