After he was deposed from his post as 1st Lord of the Admiralty on 25th May 1915 as the price of forming a National Coalition government (due to his role in the Dardanelles fiasco) Churchill served as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, part of the private estate of the Sovereign and a serious demotion. On 25th November 1915 he resigned this position, while still an MP, and as an officer in the Territorial Army sought a command position on the Western front, at least partly to restore his reputation. There was some pressure for him to be given a brigade but after some rear echelon experience at his substantive rank of Major he was given command of a Battalion as a temporary Lt Colonel on 1st January 1916. During his period of command he entered non mans land some 36 times, he resigned his commission in March 1916 and went back into Parliament. He was made Minister of Munitions in July 1916.
WI Churchill had either quit the Government in May 1915, or quit the Chancellor position earlier and gone into the Army sooner, would it have made any difference to his reputation? Would staying in the trenches for longer give him a better understanding of the war?