Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle; Winston Churchill
Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle; Winston Churchill
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 13 November 1944
9 3/8 in. x 9 3/8 in. (239 mm x 238 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x40056
Sittersback to top
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), Prime Minister. Sitter in 224 portraits. Identify
- Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle (1890-1970), French President, soldier and statesman. Sitter in 15 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Artist or producer associated with 1114 portraits, Sitter associated with 360 portraits.
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In the November following the liberation of Paris, Churchill travelled to France and together with General de Gaulle laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe on the anniversary of the Great War armistice. Cecil Beaton, an official war photographer for the Ministry of Information, photographed them two days later inspecting French troops on the Vosges front in heavy snow. Accepted in lieu from the estate of Eileen Hose, 1991.
Events of 1944back to top
Current affairs
London is hit by the V1 Flying Bomb. This weapon, developed by the German Luftwaffe and colloquially known as the 'Buzz Bomb', or 'Doodlebug', was the first guided missile and was used for attacks on targets in England and Belgium.Art and science
Laurence Olivier's epic film version of Henry V is released. Olivier directed and starred in the film, which was partly funded by the British government in recognition of its morale-boosting patriotic appeal. The cast included service men as Henry's army.International
France is liberated from German-occupation following the Battle for Normandy. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied-France led by Field Marshall Montgomery, was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million soldiers crossing the channel from England to France. Troops landed on the 6th June (D-Day), and Paris was liberated in late August.Comments back to top
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