Mr Churchill visits the Army of Occupation, 1919 (BRDW 1/2/68)

Photograph of WSC [Secretary of State for War] with a group of officers descending the steps of a school [? in Cologne, Germany]. WSC is in the centre, looking down, wearing a top hat, spotted bow tie and light coloured suit, and leaning on a cane, while beside him is [General Sir William Robertson, Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine], and behind them are [Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff], looking to the left and [? WSC’s Personal Military Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso]. Two more unidentified officers are stepping out of the school door behind them.

Aug 1919