“Mr Churchill visits the Army of Occupation, 1919” (BRDW 1/2/58)

Three quarter length photograph of WSC [Secretary of State for War], arriving in [? Cologne, Germany]. He is wearing a light top hat and coat, with a spotted bow tie, holding a cane and stepping forward to shake hands with someone outside the image. An officer is stepping down from a car behind him [? General Sir William Robertson, Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine], being saluted by another officer standing just to the side of WSC, while another man is in the foreground, to the edge of the image.

Aug 1919