Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
(1883-1963), Field MarshalSitter in 32 portraits
Field-Marshal; Commander-in-Chief Home Forces (1940); Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1941); Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (1941-5). Churchill's principal military adviser from 1941, Alanbrooke was an adroit liaison between British and American military and political leaders, responsible for a large part of the strategic planning of the Normandy invasions of 1944.
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 26 October 1936
NPG x104460
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 26 October 1936
NPG x104461
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 26 October 1936
NPG x104462
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 31 July 1939
NPG x156516
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, November 1941 (March 1941)
NPG x1436
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, November 1941 (March 1941)
NPG x4152
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 17 July 1944
NPG x72675
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1945
NPG x2418
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 16 August 1950
NPG x99683
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 16 August 1950
NPG x99684
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 16 August 1950
NPG x99685
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Hay Wrightson Ltd
bromide print
NPG x180928
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