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Standing amongst the silent crowds paying tribute to Sir Winston Churchill in Hyde Park Gate, a woman is overcome with emotion after the announcement of the death of the great British statesman. 24th January 1965 LONDON, UK: COLOURISED images show the nation in mourning after Sir Winston Churchill’s death was announced 60 years ago. One image shows mourning crowds gathered at Hyde Park Gate on the morning of Churchill's death on 24th January 1965. Another image shows Sir Winston Churchill's coffin and gun carriage pulled by a brigade of Guards, on his funeral held on 30th January 1965. Other colourised images show the processions of the state funeral. Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England. He was a British statesman and Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955 and rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. He was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his brilliant speeches during World War II defending exalted human values and for his mastery of historical and biographical descriptions in his non-fiction book ‘The Second World War.’ Sir Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. His funeral took place on 30th January after three days of lying in state in the Palace of Westminster. His was the first state funeral for a non-royal family member since Lord Carson in 1935, there would not be another until the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022. The official funeral lasted for four days. Planning for the funeral, known as Operation Hope Not, began 12 years before Churchill's death. It was initiated after Churchill's stroke in 1953 while in his second term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For more information, see www.mediadrumworld.com. ENDS