Mrs Churchill and the Komodo Dragon
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
The expedition cruise on which Clementine Churchill was a guest of Walter Edward Guinness, Lord Moyne, on board his luxury vessel Rosaura arrived off Komodo on 18 March 1935. The plans to obtain new specimens of Komodo Dragon for London Zoo have been well documented and I have written about that part of the expedition previously HERE. In brief, Moyne was a council member of the Zoological Society and a trap to use on Komodo was made in the Zoo’s workshop to take to Komodo.
Mrs Churchill wrote...