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 Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(1)
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Juliet Pannett
chalk, 1961
NPG 4346
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 31 July 1939
NPG x156517
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 31 July 1939
NPG x156518
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 31 July 1939
NPG x83928
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 31 July 1939
NPG x83929
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, March 1941
NPG x163459
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, October 1942
NPG x76876
Winston Churchill with the British delegation at the Casablanca Conference
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, January 1943
NPG x194247
Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon; Winston Churchill; Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1943
NPG x198366
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 17 July 1944
NPG x72676
Winston Churchill with Chiefs of Staff
by Planet News
bromide print, 7 May 1945
NPG x194065
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1945
NPG x2417
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1945
NPG x2552
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 16 August 1950
NPG x86131
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1952
NPG x163458
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Paul Laib
bromide print, 1957
NPG x38491
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Hay Wrightson
bromide print
NPG x74249
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 26 October 1936
NPG x104459
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