List of honours of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a British Army officer, statesman and author.

Perhaps the highest of these was the state funeral held at St Paul's Cathedral, after his body had lain in state for three days in Westminster Hall, an honour rarely granted to anyone other than a British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II also broke protocol by giving precedence to a subject, arriving at the cathedral ahead of Churchill's coffin. The funeral also saw one of the largest assemblages of statesmen in the world.

Throughout his life, Churchill also accumulated other honours and awards. He was awarded 37 other orders and medals between 1895 and 1964. Of the orders, decorations and medals Churchill received, 20 were awarded by the United Kingdom, three by France, two each by Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and Spain, and one each by the Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Libya, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States. Ten were awarded for active service as a British Army officer in Cuba, India, Egypt, South Africa, the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium. The greater number of awards were given in recognition of his service as a minister of the British government.

Coat of arms
Churchill was not a peer, never held a title of nobility, and remained a commoner all his life. As the grandson of 7th Duke of Marlborough, he bore the quartered coat of arms of the Spencer and Churchill families, as the Spencer-Churchills did ever since Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. Paul Courtenay observes that "It would be normal in [Charles Spencer's] circumstances for the paternal arms (Spencer) to take precedence over the maternal (Churchill), but because the Marlborough dukedom was senior to the Sunderland earldom, the procedure was reversed in this case." In 1817, an augmentation of honour was granted commemorating the victory of Blenheim by the 1st Duke.

As Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the surviving second son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, his arms should have been differenced, by strict heraldic rules, with a mark of cadency. Traditionally, this would have been a heraldic crescent. Those differenced arms would have been inherited by Winston Churchill. This never seems to have been used by Lord Randolph or Winston. As arms are used to differentiate two bearers, there does not seem to have been any confusion between Churchill's arms as a gentleman with many decorations and later Knight Companion of the Garter, those of his brother as a plain gentleman, and his cousin, the Duke of Marlborough, which were adorned with the insignia of a duke. As a Knight Companion of the Garter, Churchill was also entitled to supporters in his achievement. But, he never seems to have got around to applying for them.

The resulting heraldic achievement is: quarterly 1st and 4th, Sable a lion rampant Argent on a canton of the second a cross Gules (Churchill); 2nd and 3rd, quarterly Argent and Gules, in the second and third quarters a fret Or, over all on a bend Sable three escallops of the first (Spencer); in chief, on an escutcheon Argent a cross Gules surmounted by an inescutcheon Azure charged with three fleurs-de-lys Or.

When he became a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1953, his arms were encircled by the garter of the order, and at the same time the helms were made open, which is the mark of a knight. His motto was that of the Dukes of Marlborough, Fiel pero desdichado (Spanish for "Faithful but unfortunate").

Honorary citizen
On 9 April 1963, United States President John F. Kennedy, acting under authorization granted by an Act of Congress, proclaimed Churchill the first honorary citizen of the United States. Churchill was physically incapable of attending the White House ceremony, so his son and grandson accepted the award for him.

He had previously been made an honorary citizen of the City of Paris on 12 November 1944 while visiting the city following the liberation. During the ceremony at the Hôtel de Ville he received the Nazi flag that once flew from the Hôtel de Ville.

Proposed dukedoms
In 1945, King George VI offered to make Churchill the Duke of Dover – the first non-royal dukedom to be created since 1874 – as well to appoint him a Knight Companion of Order of the Garter; however, Churchill turned down both. Since 1900, only members of the British royal family have been made dukes, so the offer was exceptional.

In 1955, after retiring as prime minister, Churchill was again offered elevation to the peerage in the rank of duke by Queen Elizabeth II. By custom, prime ministers retiring from the Commons were usually offered earldoms, so a dukedom was a sign of special honour. One title that was considered was Duke of London, a city whose name had never been used in a peerage title. Churchill had represented divisions of three different counties in Parliament, and his home, Chartwell, was in a fourth, so the city in which he had spent most of his time during fifty years in politics was seen as a suitable choice. Churchill considered accepting the offer of a dukedom but eventually declined it; the lifestyle of a duke would have been expensive, and accepting any peerage might have cut short a renewed career in the Commons for his son Randolph, and in due course, might also have prevented one for his grandson Winston. At the time, there was no procedure for disclaiming a title; the procedure was first established by the Peerage Act 1963. Upon inheriting a peerage, either Randolph or Winston would immediately be unseated from the House of Commons.

Political and government offices

 * Member of Parliament (1901–1922, 1924–1964)
 * Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (1905–1908)
 * Privy Counsellor (1907–1965)
 * President of the Board of Trade (1908–1910)
 * Home Secretary (1910–1911)
 * First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915, 1939–1940)
 * Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1915)
 * Minister of Munitions (1917–1919)
 * Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air (1919–1922)
 * Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924–1929)
 * First Lord of the Admiralty (1939–1940)
 * Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–1945, 1951–1955)
 * Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1941–1965)
 * Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada (29 December 1941 – 1965)
 * Leader of the Opposition (1945–1951)
 * Father of the House of Commons (1959–1964)

Other honours
In 1913, Churchill was appointed an Elder Brother of Trinity House as result of his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1922, he was invested as a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour and in 1946 he became a Member of the Order of Merit. In 1953, he was invested as a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter, the highest ranking British order of knighthood.

On 4 April 1939, Churchill was made an Honorary Air Commodore of No. 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron ("Churchill's Own") in the Auxiliary Air Force. In March 1943, the Air Council awarded Churchill honorary wings. He retained the appointment until 11 March 1957 when 615 Squadron was disbanded. He did, however, continue to hold the rank of Honorary Air Commodore. He frequently wore his uniform as an Air Commodore during World War II.

He was the Colonel of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (his old regiment) and, after its amalgamation, the first Colonel of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, which he held until his death in 1965. He was also Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.

From 1941 to his death, he was the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a ceremonial office. In 1941, Canadian Governor General Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, swore him into the King's Privy Council for Canada. Although this allowed him to use the honorific title The Honourable and the post-nominal letters PC, both of these were trumped by his membership in the Imperial Privy Council, which allowed him the use of The Right Honourable. He was also appointed Grand Seigneur of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1956.

In 1945, he was mentioned by Halvdan Koht among seven candidates that were qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. Actually, he nominated Cordell Hull.

On 4 July 1947, Churchill was admitted as an hereditary member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. He was presented with his insignia and diploma when he visited Washington, D.C., on January 16, 1952.

A prolific painter in oils, in 1948 he was elected as an Honorary Academician Extraordinary by the Royal Academy: a highly unusual honour for an amateur artist.

In 1949, Churchill held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Kent.

In 1953, he was made a Knight Companion of the Garter, which gave him the title Sir Winston Churchill, KG. He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending high human values."

He was Chancellor of the University of Bristol, as well as, in 1959, Father of the House, the MP with the longest continuous service.

In 1956, Churchill received the Karlspreis (known in English as the Charlemagne Award), an award by the German city of Aachen to those who most contribute to the European idea and European peace.

The Royal Society of Literature made Churchill one of the first five authors to be named a Companion of Literature in 1961.

Also in 1961, the Chartered Institute of Building named Churchill as an Honorary Fellow for his services and passion for the construction industry.

In 1964, Civitan International presented Churchill with its first World Citizenship Award for service to the world community.

Churchill was also appointed a Kentucky Colonel.

When Churchill was 88, he was asked by the Duke of Edinburgh how he would like to be remembered. He replied with a scholarship like the Rhodes scholarship but for the wider masses. After his death, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust was established in the United Kingdom and Australia. A Churchill Trust Memorial Day was held in Australia, raising $4.3 million. Since that time, the Churchill Trust in Australia has supported over 3,000 scholarship recipients in a diverse variety of fields, where merit, either on the basis of past experience or potential, and the propensity to contribute to the community, have been the only criteria.

One of the four sets of false teeth that Winston Churchill wore his whole life to keep his unique way of speaking is now in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

Ships, trains and tanks


Two Royal Navy warships have been named HMS Churchill: the destroyer USS Herndon (DD-198) (I45) (1940–1944) and the submarine HMS Churchill (S46) (1970–1991).

On 10 March 2001, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) was commissioned into the United States Navy. The launch and christening of the ship two years earlier had been co-sponsored by Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames.

In addition, the Danish DFDS line named a car ferry Winston Churchill, and the Corporation of Trinity House named one of their lighthouse tenders similarly. A sail training ship was named Sir Winston Churchill.

In September 1947, the Southern Railway named a Battle of Britain class steam locomotive, No. 21C151, after him. Churchill was offered the opportunity to perform the naming ceremony, but he declined. Later, the locomotive was used to pull his funeral train, and it is now kept in York's National Railway Museum.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway locomotive No. 9, Winston Churchill.

The Churchill tank, or Infantry Tank Mk IV; was a British Second World War tank named after Churchill, who was Prime Minister at the time of its design.

Parks and geographic features
The Winston Churchill Range in the Canadian Rockies was named in his honour. Also in Canada, Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park and Churchill Lake in Saskatchewan were named after him, and Churchill Falls on the Churchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Winston Churchill Square is a garden and sitting area in Manhattan, New York City.

Churchill Park, Glendowie, New Zealand.

The Churchill National Park in Australia, which was established on 12 February 1941 as the Dandenong National Park, was renamed in 1944 in his honour. Churchill Island and Churchill Island Marine National Park in Victoria, Australia were also named after him.

The Churchill Park (Danish: Churchillparken) located in central Copenhagen, Denmark, is named after Churchill in commemoration of Churchill and the British help to Denmark in the liberation of Denmark during World War II.

Roads



 * Avenue Winston Churchill/Winston Churchilllaan in Brussels-Capital Region runs in the Municipality of Uccle/Ukkel.
 * Rond-point Winston Churchill/Winston Churchillplein in Brussels-Capital Region runs in the Municipality of Uccle/Ukkel.


 * Winston Churchill Avenue is a major road in Portsmouth.
 * Winston Churchill Road is a minor road in King's Lynn.
 * Basingstoke and Salford both have roads called Churchill Way.
 * Basingstoke and Salford both have roads called Churchill Way.


 * The south end of Churchill Avenue in Ottawa was the site of the Churchill Arms Motor Hotel, which many residents of Ottawa remember for its three-storey exterior painting of the silhouette of Winston Churchill. Churchill Avenue was itself renamed from Main Street after the Second World War.
 * In St. Albert, Alberta Sir Winston Churchill Ave runs east to west through the city.
 * Winston Churchill Boulevard in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is also named in his honour.
 * Winston Churchill Boulevard in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is also named in his honour.


 * Avenue Winston-Churchill in Paris bordered by Grand and Petit Palais.


 * The main road connecting the border with Spain and the airport to the city centre is called Winston Churchill Avenue.


 * In the Netherlands, about ninety roads and streets are named after Winston Churchill, including Churchilllaan, a major avenue in Leiden (part of the N206 road) and Churchill-laan, an avenue in Amsterdam.


 * The main road through Crofton Downs, a suburb of Wellington is named Churchill Drive. Several streets in the Suburb are named after Winston Churchill (including Winston Street and Spencer Street,) family members (including Randolph Road and Clementine Way,) or other connections to Churchill (including Downing Street, Chartwell Drive and Admirialty Street.)


 * Streets in the cities of Trondheim and Tromsø are named in Winston Churchill's honour. Namely "Churchills vei" in Jakobsli, Trondheim and "Winston Churchills vei" in Tromsø.




 * Av. Churchill - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro;
 * Av. Churchill, Centro, Niterói -Rio de Janeiro ;
 * Av. Churchill, Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais;
 * Av. Winston Churchill, Fugmann, Londrina - Paraná;
 * Av. Winston Churchill, Capão Raso, Curitiba - Paraná;
 * Av. Winston Churchill, Rudge Ramos, São Bernardo do Campo - São Paulo;
 * Av. Winston Churchill, Parque Centenário, Duque de Caxias - Rio de Janeiro;
 * Rua Churchill, Vila São Jorge, Nova Iquaçu - Rio de Janeiro;
 * Rua Churchill, Cascatinha, Nova friburgo - Rio de Janeiro;
 * Rua Churchill, Jardim Nakamura, São Paulo - São Paulo;
 * Rua Churchill, Cruz, Lorena - São Paulo;
 * Rua Churchill, Iririú, Joinville - Santa Catarina;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Jardim São Caetano, São Caetano do Sul - São Paulo;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Jardim das Industrias, São José dos Campos - São Paulo;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Bela Vista, Salto - São Paulo;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Presidente Prudente - São Paulo;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Solo Sagrado, São José do Rio Preto - São Paulo;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Vila São José, Nova Lima - Minas Gerais;
 * Rua Winston Churchill, Cidade Nobre, Ipatinga - Minas Gerais;
 * Rua Winston Churchill,Cavaleiros, Macaé - Rio de Janeiro;
 * Rua Winston Churchill,Centro, Viana - Espírito Santo.


 * Streets in the cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya and Daliyat al-Karmel are named in Winston Churchill's honour.

Schools
Many schools have been named after him.

Ten schools in Canada are named in his honour: one each in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Hamilton, Kingston, St. Catharines, Lethbridge, Calgary, Toronto (Scarborough) and Ottawa also in London,Ont. Churchill Auditorium at the Technion is named after him.

At least five American high schools carry his name; these are located in Potomac, Maryland; Livonia, Michigan; Eugene, Oregon; East Brunswick, New Jersey and San Antonio, Texas.

Buildings, public squares and infrastructure

 * The national and Commonwealth memorial to Churchill is Churchill College, Cambridge, which was founded in 1958 and opened in 1960. It is also home to the Churchill Archives Centre, which holds the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and over 570 collections of personal papers and archives documenting the history of the Churchill era and after.
 * In London, Churchill Place is one of the main squares in Canary Wharf.
 * Also in London, The Churchill Arms was re-named after him after World War 2.
 * Energlyn and Churchill Park railway station in Wales is named in his honour.
 * Churchill Square (Brighton and Hove), England
 * Churchill Square (Brighton and Hove), England


 * The Churchill occupying an entire block in New York City's Midtown Manhattan neighborhood is a residential building named after him, and features his portrait in the lobby and rooftop pool (rare for NYC residences).
 * In Fulton, Missouri, the National Churchill Museum.
 * In Fulton, Missouri, the National Churchill Museum.


 * The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has a stop on the Edmonton LRT system and a public square named in his honour. Churchill Square, is the main square in that city and was renovated in 2004 for the city's 100th anniversary of incorporation.
 * Churchill Square (St. John's), Newfoundland.
 * The neighbourhood of Churchill Park, St. John's.
 * The neighbourhood of Churchill Park, St. John's.


 * In Lyon, the Winston Churchill bridge.
 * In Neuilly-sur-Seine, the.
 * In Neuilly-sur-Seine, the.


 * (Winston Churchill Square) is located behind The Main Train Station in Prague, Czech Republic.


 * The town of Churchill, Victoria.


 * A large dock in the Port of Antwerp was named after him by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in 1966.


 * , a square in Rotterdam. Also the square in front of the World Forum in The Hague is named after him.


 * Churchill Park (Lautoka) stadium.

Other objects
He appeared on the 1965 crown, the first commoner to be placed on a British coin. He made another appearance on a crown issued in 2010 to honour the 70th anniversary of his Premiership.

Pol Roger's prestige cuvée Champagne, Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, is named after him. The first vintage, 1975, was launched in 1984 at Blenheim Palace. The name was accepted by his heirs as Churchill was a faithful customer of Pol Roger. Following Churchill's death in 1965, Pol Roger added a black border to the label on bottles shipped to the UK as a sign of mourning. This was not lifted until 1990.

The Julieta (7" × 47), a size of cigar, is also commonly known as a Churchill.

Churchill's Toyshop.

Polls
Churchill has been included in numerous polls, mostly connected with greatness. Time named him its Man of the Year for 1940, and "Man of the Half-Century" in 1949. A BBC survey, of January 2000, saw Churchill voted the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century. In 2002, BBC TV viewers and web site users voted him the greatest Briton of all time in a ten-part series called Great Britons, a poll attracting almost two million votes.

Statues
Many statues have been created in likeness and in honour of Churchill. Numerous buildings and squares have also been named in his honour. The most prominent example of a statue of Churchill is the official statue commissioned by the government and created by Ivor Roberts-Jones which now stands in Parliament Square. It was unveiled by Churchill's widow, Lady Churchill, on 1 November 1973, and was Grade II listed in 2008. In June 2020 when anti-racism protests occurred in the United Kingdom during the George Floyd protests, the statue of Sir Winston Churchill located in Parliament Square was vandalised when a protester painted graffiti on the statue reading “was a racist” underneath Churchill’s name which was crossed out by the same vandal who wrote the sentence. A couple of days after this event took place the statue was cleaned and it did not sustain any permanent damage.

Another Roberts-Jones statue of Churchill displaying the V sign is prominently placed in New Orleans (erected in 1977).

In addition several other statues have also been made, including a bronze bust of Winston Churchill by Jacob Epstein (1947), several statues by David McFall at Woodford (1959), William McVey outside the British embassy in Washington, D.C. (1966), Franta Belsky at Fulton, Missouri (1969), at least three from Oscar Nemon: one on the front lawn of the Halifax Public Library branch on Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1980); one in the British House of Commons (1969); a bust of his head along with that of Franklin Roosevelt commemorating the Quebec Conference, 1943 next to Port St. Louis in Quebec City (1998); and one in Nathan Phillips Square outside of Toronto City Hall (1977), and Jean Cardot beside the Petit Palais in Paris (1998). A statue of Churchill and Roosevelt, sculpted by Lawrence Holofcener is located in New Bond Street, London. There is an oversized bust of Churchill at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. It is paired with a similar bust of President Roosevelt.

After Churchill was declared the greatest Briton of all time in the BBC poll and television series Great Britons (see above), a statue was erected in his honour and now stands at the BBC television studios. Churchill is also memorialised by many statues and a public square in New York, in recognition of his life, and also because his mother was from New York. His maternal family is also memorialised in streets, parks, and neighbourhoods throughout the city.

In 2012, a statue of Churchill was erected in Jerusalem in recognition of his "staunch and unwavering support of the Jewish cause and their desire for a homeland".

Orders, decorations and medals
This is a list of the orders, decorations, and medals received by Winston Churchill, arranged in order of precedence.

British orders and medals

 * Order of the Garter UK ribbon.svg Order of the Garter (1953)
 * Order of Merit (Commonwealth realms) ribbon.svg Order of Merit (1946)
 * Order of the Companions of Honour Ribbon.gif Order of the Companions of Honour (1922)
 * India Medal BAR.svg The India Medal with clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897–98 (1898)
 * Queens Sudan Medal BAR.svg The Queen's Sudan Medal, 1896–98 (1899)
 * Queens South Africa Medal BAR.svg The Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899–1902, with six clasps (1901)
 * 1914 1915 Star ribbon bar.svg 1914-15 Star (1919)
 * British War Medal BAR.svg British War Medal 1914–1918 (1919)
 * Victory Medal ribbon bar.svg Victory Medal (United Kingdom) 1914–1919 (1920)
 * 1939-45 Star.png 1939–1945 Star (1945)
 * Africa Star BAR.svg Africa Star (1945)
 * Italy Star BAR.svg Italy Star (1945)
 * France and Germany Star BAR.svg France and Germany Star (1945)
 * Defence Medal ribbon.png Defence Medal (1945)
 * War Medal 1939–1945 (UK) ribbon.png War Medal 1939–1945 (1945)
 * King George V Coronation Medal ribbon.svg King George V Coronation Medal (1911)
 * King George V Silver Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg King George V Silver Jubilee Medal (1935)
 * GeorgeVICoronationRibbon.png King George VI Coronation Medal (1937)
 * UK Queen EII Coronation Medal ribbon.svg Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953)
 * Territorial Decoration (UK) ribbon.PNG Territorial Decoration (1924)

Orders

 * ESP Cruz Merito Militar (Distintivo Rojo) pasador.svg Cross of the Order of Military Merit, Red Ribbon (War Service) (Spain, 1895)
 * Grand Crest Ordre de Leopold.png UK MID 1920-94.svg Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold with Palm (Belgium, 1945)
 * NLD Order of the Dutch Lion - Grand Cross BAR.png Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands, 1946)
 * LUX Order of the Oak Crown - Grand Cross BAR.png Grand Cross, Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg, 1946)
 * St Olavs Orden storkors stripe.svg Grand Cross with Collar, Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (Norway, 1948)
 * Order of the Elephant Ribbon bar.svg Knight of the Order of the Elephant (Denmark, 1950)
 * Ordre de la Liberation 2nd ribbon.svg Companion of the Ordre de la Libération (France, 1958)
 * Most Refulgent Order of the Star of Nepal.PNG Most Refulgent Order of the Star of Nepal, First Class (Nepal, 1961)
 * Order of Muhammad ibn Ali al Sanussi.gif Grand Sash of the High Order of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (Libya, 1962)
 * CZE Rad Bileho Lva 1 tridy BAR.svg Order of the White Lion (Class I, civilian) (Czech Republic, posthumously 2014)

Decorations

 * U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) (United States, 1919)
 * EST Cross of Liberty I division ribbon.svg Cross of Liberty for Military Leadership, Grade I (Estonia, 1925)
 * Croix de Guerre 1940-1945 with palm (Belgium) - ribbon bar.png Croix de Guerre with bronze Palm (Belgium, 1945)
 * LUX Médaille Militaire BAR.svg Military Medal (Luxembourg, 1946)
 * Medaille militaire ribbon.svg Médaille militaire (France, 1947)
 * Croix de guerre 1939–1945 stripe bronsepalme.svg Croix de Guerre with bronze Palm (France, 1947)

Service medals

 * Khedives Sudan Medal 1897.png Khedive's Sudan Medal (clasp: Khartoum) (Egypt, 1899)
 * ES MEDALLA DE LOS VOLUNTARIOS DE LA CAMPAÑA DE CUBA RIBBON BAR (1899).png Cuban Volunteer Campaign Medal, 1895–98 (Spain, 1914)
 * DNK Kong Christian den Tiendes frihedsmedaille ribbon bar.png King Christian X's Liberty Medal (Denmark, 1947)

Military ranks and titles



 * Cornet, 4th Queen's Own Hussars (20 February 1895)
 * Lieutenant, 4th Queen's Own Hussars (20 May 1896) (resigned commission 3 May 1899)
 * Lieutenant, South African Light Horse (January 1900)
 * Captain, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (QOOH), Imperial Yeomanry (4 January 1902)
 * Major, Henley Squadron, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (27 May 1905)
 * Major, QOOH, attached to 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards (November 1915 – 5 January 1916)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary), QOOH, attached to 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (5 January 1916 – March 1916)
 * Major, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, Territorial Army (March 1916 – 1924)
 * Honorary Air Commodore of No. 615 Squadron RAF (4 Apr 1939 – 1957)
 * Honorary Colonel, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (21 October 1939 – 13 October 1959)
 * Honorary Colonel, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army (21 October 1939 – 24 January 1965)
 * Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (24 January 1940 – 1947)
 * Colonel, 4th Queen's Own Hussars (22 October 1941 – 24 October 1958)
 * Honorary Colonel, 4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (14 November 1941 – 24 January 1965)
 * Major, Territorial Army, Retired (20 February 1942)
 * Honorary Colonel, 489th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA, Territorial Army (20 February 1942 – 1 July 1955)
 * Honorary Colonel, 4th Battalion, The Essex Regiment (21 January 1945 – 24 January 1965)
 * Colonel, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars (24 October 1958 – 24 January 1965)
 * Honorary Pilot Wings, Royal Air Force (March 1943)
 * Honorary Pilot Wings, United States Air Force
 * Colonel, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels

Academic

 * Fellow of the Royal Society (1941–1965)
 * Rector of the University of Aberdeen (1914–18)
 * Rector of Edinburgh University (1929–32)
 * Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1929–1965)
 * Honorary Academician Extraordinary of the Royal Academy of Arts (1948–1965)
 * Honorary Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949)
 * Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium

Honorary degrees
Churchill received many honorary doctorates from British universities as well other universities in the world, e.g.:


 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) in 1926
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, US) on 16 June 1941
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) on 6 September 1943
 * Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LL.D.) from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) on 16 September 1944
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida, US) on 26 February 1946
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) on 27 April 1946
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri, US) on 5 May 1946
 * Doctorate honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) in Law from Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) on 10 May 1946
 * Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LL.D.) from the University of London (London, England, UK) in 1948
 * Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, England, UK) in 1949
 * Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa (Dr. Phil. h.c.) from the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) in 1950

Other distinctions

 * Nobel Prize in Literature (1953)
 * Albert Gold Medal, Royal Society of Arts (1945)
 * Companion of Literature, Royal Society of Literature (1961)
 * Grotius Medal, Netherlands (1949)
 * Grand Seigneur of the Hudson's Bay Company (1955)
 * Karlspreis (1956)
 * The Williamsburg Award (7 December 1955)
 * Franklin Medal, City of Philadelphia, US (1956)
 * 1st World Citizenship Award from Civitan International (1964)
 * Theodor Herzl Award, Zionist Organization of America (1964)
 * Honorary Bencher, Gray's Inn (18 February 1942)
 * Honorary Member, Lloyd's of London
 * Honorary Life Member, Veteran's Fire Engine Company, Alexandria, Virginia (1960)
 * Member of Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
 * President of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association 1959–1965

Membership in lineage societies

 * Royal Society of St George (Vice President)
 * Society of the Cincinnati (1947)
 * Sons of the American Revolution (1963)

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 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 22 April 1948: Eastbourne
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 6 July 1948: Aldershot
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 16 July 1948: Cardiff
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 27 May 1948: Perth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1949: Kensington
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 20 May 1950: Worcester
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 13 July 1950: Bath
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 12 December 1950: Portsmouth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2 March 1951: Swindon
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 16 April 1951: Sheffield
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 15 August 1951: Deal
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1951: Aberystwyth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1951: Dover
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1953: Stirling
 * 🇯🇲 17 January 1953: Kingston
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 15 December 1950: Portsmouth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 30 September 1955: Harrow
 * 16 December 1955: Derry
 * 16 December 1955: Belfast
 * 🇫🇷 3 March 1956: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
 * 🇮🇲 23 July 1957: Douglas
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 27 November 1957: Margate
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 28 October 1958: Leeds
 * 10 October 1964: Estcourt

Churchill received a worldwide total of 42 Freedoms of Cities and Towns in his lifetime, a record for a lifelong British citizen.