Photographs of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill during the war: 1944, 1944-01 - 1994-08
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill convalescing in the Atlas Mountains, near Marrakech [Morocco], Jan 1944; Clementine and Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] returning home aboard HMS King George V, Jan 1944; Churchill with Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] and [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada], [? May 1944]; crossing to Normandy [France] with Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] and others aboard HMS Kelvin, June 1944, also with General Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander, 21st Army Group] on the beach; visiting MS's anti-aircraft battery at Edenbridge, Kent, June 1944; Churchill visiting the troops at Loreto aerodrome and at a forward observation post north of Florence, Italy, Aug 1944; Clementine's visit to Woodford Mobile First Aid Unit [Kent], Aug 1944; travelling to the Second Quebec Conference [Canada] aboard HMS Queen Mary, Sept 1944; arriving at Quebec with [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] and Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States]; Clementine and Eleanor Roosevelt doing a shared broadcast to the Canadian people from Quebec; Clementine with Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Alice, Lady Athlone, on the deck of the Citadel, Quebec, and also with Churchill, 1st Lord Athlone, Governor-General of Canada, Roosevelt and Mackenzie King; the press corps on the deck; Clementine with Eleanor Roosevelt at a reception at Chateau Frontenac; Churchill and Charles de Gaulle on Churchill's arrival in France, and on the Champs-Elysées, Paris, for the Armistice Day parade, Nov 1944; Churchill in negotiations with Archbishop Damaskinos, Athens [Greece], Dec 1944; Clementine with Guy Gibson, c 1944.
Dates
- Creation: 1944-01 - 1994-08
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
2 file(s)
Language of Materials
English
Finding aid date
2017-04-13 11:43:19.360000+00:00
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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