Winston Churchill reviewing the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Winston Churchill reviewing the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, August 1919
4 1/4 in. x 6 in. (109 mm x 151 mm) overall
Given by Lady Haken, 1947
Photographs Collection
NPG x6119
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- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), Prime Minister. Sitter in 224 portraits. Identify
- Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Bt (1864-1922), Field-Marshal and Irish Unionist politician. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
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- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6584 portraits.
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A Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) unit which was attached to the British Army of the Rhine is shown here being inspected by Winston Churchill in Cologne.
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