'Arrival at Durban', November 1899, (1945). Winston Churchill (1874-1965) arrives in Durban, South Africa, after escaping from a Boer prison camp in Pretoria. Churchill was a journalist travelling with a body of British troops during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) when he was captured. British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]