 Complete the following phrase:  In February 1895, Churchill was commissioned as a second lieutet in the 4th Queens Own Hussars regiment of the British Army, based at Aldershot. In July, he rushed to Crouch Hill, North London to sit with Mrs Everest as she lay dying, subsequently organising her funeral. Churchill was eager to witness military action and used his mothers influence to try to get himself posted to a war zone. In the autumn of 1895, he and Reginald Barnes traveled to Cuba to observe 