photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1994-07-291-1

Description

Group photograph, HM Queen Mary with Chief Cdr Nancy Hughes-Reckitt, Jnr Cdr G Jagger, Coy Asst R Nasmyth (later Young), Coy Asst M Carrol (later Jeffrey), Sub Catherine Elizabeth Haynes (later Hammond) and two male officers at 133 Officer Cadet Training Unit (Royal Artillery) Shrivenham, 1941. From a collection of 389 photographs of ceremonial events involving the Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1939-1949. Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945). The collection includes photographs of Queen Mary and her children King George VI and Mary, The Princess Royal, as well as George’s wife Queen Elizabeth (later known as the Queen Mother) and daughter Princess Elizabeth (the future Elizabeth II). It also includes photographs of Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, Mrs Neville Chamberlain, Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, FM Earl of Cavan, Anthony Eden, Maj Gen Erskine, the Regent Of Iraq (possibly Crown Prince Abd al-Ilāh of Hejaz), the Bishop of Liverpool (either Albert David or Clifford Martin), Lt Gen Sir Robert Pascoe, Gen Jan Smuts and Mrs John Winant. Some of the photographs in the group are associated with Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Campaigns

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)