War Leader 1940-1945

Photo shows WSC (facing away from the camera) seated with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [later Lord Montgomery of El Alamein] Commander 21st Army Group and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke [later Lord Alanbrooke]. They are all wearing uniform and seated on folding chairs round a wicker hamper covered with a white cloth. Behind them is the river Rhine.

“Crossing the Rhine: Picnic on the Rhine with Alanbrooke and Montgomery” (BRDW 1/1/231)
1945
Photo shows WSC in uniform picking his way through rubble and fallen trees followed by a group of people. He is following a US officer in uniform [?General William Simpson of the 9th American Army]. A camouflaged tank is seen at the left of the photo.

“Crossing the Rhine” (BRDW 1/1/232)
1945
Image shows printed poem beginning "When half the world was deaf and mute. . ." attributed to 'a former Ministerial colleague of the Prime Minister'.

Poem to WSC in the Sunday Times (BRDW 1/1/364)
1945
Photo shows WSC

“Crossing the Rhine” (BRDW 1/1/233)
1945
Photo shows from left to right: Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke

“Crossing the Rhine” (BRDW 1/1/234)
1945
Photo shows WSC wearing a pale suit smiling as he walks through a cheering crowd [possibly in France].

“Setting foot on conquered territory” (BRDW 1/1/235)
1945
Photo shows WSC wearing a light suit and standing in a small motor boat with a town in the background. Among the passengers in the boat is a woman wearing a headscarf [?Mrs Margaret Nairn].

“Touring the ruins Berlin [Germany]” (BRDW 1/1/236)
1945
Photo shows WSC walking accompanied by a group of people.

“VE Day procession to the House of Commons” (BRDW 1/1/240)
1945
Photo shows WSC standing in an open top car

“Triumph” (BRDW 1/1/241)
1945
Photo of WSC in profile seated at a desk [in 10 Downing Street to make a broadcast to the nation].

“The war has been won” (BRDW 1/1/242)
1945
Photo taken from above and behind WSC shows him facing away from the camera and standing at a balcony looking down at a huge crowd of people below. He has a cigar in his mouth and is holding his hand up making a victory sign. A microphone is just seen in front of him.

“Waving to the crowds in Whitehall” (BRDW 1/1/243)
1945
Photo shows WSC and CSC on the beach at Hendaye

“Snap!” (BRDW 1/1/244)
1945
Photo shows WSC wearing a pale suit smiling as he walks through a cheering crowd [possibly in France].

“Cheers!” (BRDW 1/1/245)
1945
Photo shows WSC wearing a light suit and standing in a small motor boat with a town in the background. Among the passengers in the boat is a woman wearing a headscarf [?Mrs Margaret Nairn].

“‘All Aboard’: At St Jean de Luz [France] 1945” (BRDW 1/1/246)
1945
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