photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1957-10-9-2-13
Description
Auchinleck and Mountbatten, 1943. General Claude Auchinleck on the right with Vice-Admiral Mountbatten to the left, General Sir George Gifford and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse are in the centre. In August 1943, Mountbatten became Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, while Auchinleck was Commander in Chief, India. From the second of two photograph albums showing visits of Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck when he was Commander in Chief in India from 1943-1947.