Photographs of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill during the war: 1943, 1943-02 - 2007-05
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill in Tripoli, Libya, Feb 1943, with Randolph Churchill, General Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander, Eighth Army], Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese, General Sir Harold Alexander [Commander-in-Chief 18th Army Group, North Africa] and General Sir Alan Brooke [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Alanbrooke]; Churchill's return to London with Clementine, Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey] and [?] Edwina Sandys, Feb 1943; Clementine opening the YMCA at Shoeburyness Experimental Station [Essex]; Churchill's secretaries Marion Holmes [later Marian Spicer] and Elizabeth Layton with Churchill's grandson Winston; Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier] with Celia Sandys as a baby; Churchill with Montgomery and General George Marshall [Chief of Staff of United States Army] at the Allied planning conference in Algiers, June 1943; receiving the Freedom of the City at the London Guildhall, June 1943; with Clementine aboard HMS Queen Mary on the way to Canada for the Quebec Conference, Aug 1943; sitting on the terrace of the Citadel, Quebec, with [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, 1st Lord Athlone, Governor-General of Canada, Princess Alice, Lady Athlone and others; working on a train in Canada; relaxing after the conference by the lake at Cabane de Montmorency; MS at Ottawa and with members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps; Churchill receiving his honorary degree at Harvard, Sept 1943; Clementine in Williamsburg, Sept 1943; returning aboard HMS Renown; Churchill with Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley], Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham [1st Sea Lord] and 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson, Churchill's doctor] aboard the Renown on the way to Egypt, Nov 1943; Churchill and his sixty-ninth birthday cake, Teheran [Iran], Nov 1943; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Teheran, Dec 1943; Churchill with Sarah, Dec 1943; recovering from pneumonia in his dressing gown, Dec 1943; portrait of Churchill by Frank Salisbury, presented to Harrow School, 1943.
Dates
- Creation: 1943-02 - 2007-05
Creator
- From the Fonds: Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Extent
3 file(s)
Language of Materials
English
Finding aid date
2017-04-11 13:54:56.060000+00:00
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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