When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister during 1940, he bypassed the War Office altogether and appointed himself Minister of Defence (though there was, curiously, no ministry of defence until 1947).
1940年温斯顿·丘吉尔任首相时他干脆绕过陆军部并任命他自己为国防大臣（虽然到1947年为止英国没有国防部）。