“Mr Churchill visits the Army of Occupation, 1919” (BRDW 1/2/60)

Full length photograph of WSC [Secretary of State for War], reviewing troops lined up in open grassland near [Cologne, Germany]. He is wearing a light top hat and coat, and his face is partially hidden by his hand, while walking past a soldier carrying a regimental flag. An unidentified officer, wearing an armband, is walking beside him, while to the left of the image stands [? General Sir William Robertson, Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine], acknowledging a salute.

Aug 1919