Patrick Kinna Winston Churchills PPS signed 10 x 8 inch Yalta Conference photo. Patrick Kinna, who has died aged ...

Patrick Kinna Winston Churchills PPS signed 10 x 8 inch Yalta Conference photo. Patrick Kinna, who has died aged 95, witnessed many of the most significant allied meetings of the second world war as clerk to the prime minister, Winston Churchill. The job came out of the blue, with a call from Downing Street instructing Kinna to join a warship in Scotland that would take the prime minister to a mid-Atlantic rendezvous with the American president, Franklin Roosevelt. At that meeting, the prime minister's dictating fluency threatened to smother the president in a flood of long messages. I was terribly busy all the time, Kinna later recalled. I spent days and days typing. Asked why he was chosen for this important job, Kinna always said it came down to his great speed at shorthand (150 words per minute) and typing (90 wpm). From then on, Kinna accompanied Churchill on each of his many overseas trips, which were not always comfortable: getting to Yalta, in Ukraine, for the February 1945 meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt, involved a six-hour drive from the airport along what Churchill called the riviera of Hades ; on the way back, Churchill asked to have his clothes deloused. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99