War Leader 1940-1945

Photo of WSC wearing a pale suit and a hat standing next to Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] with Niagara Falls behind them.

“The Quebec [Canada] Conference: At Niagara Falls” (BRDW 1/1/203)
1943
Photo shows WSC leaning in to listen to the President of Turkey

“With President Inonu of Turkey” (BRDW 1/1/224)
1943
Photo showing WSC

“He went everywhere and did everything” (BRDW 1/1/151)
1944
Photo shows WSC sitting in a chair

“My daughter Mary: She’s in the Army now” (BRDW 1/1/177)
1944
Photo shows WSC and Mary Churchill

“My daughter Mary: She’s in the Army now” (BRDW 1/1/180)
1944
Photo shows WSC sitting together in the back of a car. WSC has a cigar in his mouth and raises his hand to his peaked cap.

“With ‘my better half'” (BRDW 1/1/326)
1944
Photo of WSC in profile seated and looking through a pair of binoculars

“Looking forward (at Florence [Italy])” (BRDW 1/1/210)
1944
Photo taken during Eighth Army attacks north of Rome. In the foreground is WSC wearing uniform and a pith helmet. He is seated (facing away from the camera) next to the wall of a ruined castle above the front line and looking intently through binoculars. Around him is a group of army officers also watching through binoculars.

“Watching an attack on a German held ridge in Italy” (BRDW 1/1/211)
1944
Photo shows (from left to right) Field Marshal Jan Smuts

“With the Commonwealth Premiers” (BRDW 1/1/213)
1944
Photo shows WSC's arrival at [?the Canadian Parliament]. He is wearing a pin-striped suit and a bow tie and smiling. He is followed by a group including several Canadian mounted police and is being greeted warmly.

“Quebec [Canada] Conference” (BRDW 1/1/214)
1944
Photo shows WSC and President Roosevelt at Wolfe's Cove

“Quebec [Canada] Conference” (BRDW 1/1/215)
1944
Photo shows WSC climbing down from his train arriving for the second Quebec Conference. He is wearing a peaked cap and has a cigar in his mouth. Behind him are CSC and Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]

“Welcome to Canada” (BRDW 1/1/216)
1944
Photo shows WSC and CSC on the deck of the Queen Mary on arrival in Scotland after a visit to Canada. WSC is wearing an overcoat and peaked cap and has a cigar in his mouth and CSC is wearing a fur coat and headscarf.

“Home Again” (BRDW 1/1/217)
1944
Photo shows WSC with uniformed Vatican guards.

“At the Vatican” (BRDW 1/1/218)
1944
Photo shows WSC walking down exterior steps [?at the Vatican] with a uniformed Vatican official and soldiers.

“After an audience with the Pope [Pope Puis XII]” (BRDW 1/1/220)
1944
Head and shoulders photo of Archishop Damaskinos standing next to WSC. WSC is wearing uniform (including peaked cap and overcoat) and is smoking a cigar.

“With the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos” (BRDW 1/1/221)
1944
Photo shows WSC being presented with a gift of an Australian blackwood walking stick by Stanley Bruce [later Lord Bruce of Melbourne].

“Receiving a walking stick- a gift from the Australian people” (BRDW 1/1/222)
1944
Photo shows WSC wearing a white suit shaking hand with Marshal Tito

“With Tito in Italy” (BRDW 1/1/228)
1944
Photo shows WSC and Prince Umberto

“With Prince Umberto” (BRDW 1/1/229)
1944
Photo shows WSC and Roosevelt accompanied by a large group of people including Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (wearing a dark greatcoat

“President Roosevelt and Mr Churchill inspecting a Guard of Honour on arrival at Yalta” (BRDW 1/1/237)
1944
Photo shows WSC and General Charles de Gaulle walking down the Avenue des Champs-Elysee with the Arc de Triomphe behind them during the French Armistice Day parade. Both are in uniform and WSC is raising his hand in salute. Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] walks behind WSC.

“Armistice Day in Paris [France]” (BRDW 1/1/249)
1944
Photo shows WSC and President Roosevelt deep in conversation [at the Yalta conference]. They are sitting at a table on which there are empty coffee cups.

“With President Roosevelt” (BRDW 1/1/225)
1945
Exterior shot showing from left to right: CSC

“With Joseph Davies at Chequers” (BRDW 1/1/226)
1945
Photograph of WSC and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia [taken following their meeting at Auberge due Lac

“With King Ibn Saud in Cairo [Egypt]” (BRDW 1/1/227)
1945
Photo shows Roosevelt

“With Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta” (BRDW 1/1/230)
1945
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