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Accession Number

NAM.1957-10-9-2-25

Description

“Lord Linlithgow's Departure. Services Officers, Civil administrators, Princes, Ministers and many friends gathered at the entrance to the Viceroy's House to say farewell to Lord and Lady Linlithgow. Here Lady Linlithgow stands on the steps while the departing Viceroy inspects the guard of honour. DRA/86. Interservices Public Relations Directorate, India.” At the Viceroy Residential Palace, New Delhi, in 1943, Lord Linlithgow’s departure as Viceroy of India is commemorated by a gathering of British and Indian army soldiers, Princes, Ministers, and friends including Auchinleck. Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow was the Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943. From the second of two photograph albums of 288 photographs, 1943-1947. Showing visits of Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck when he was Commander in Chief in India from 1943-1947.

Campaigns

World War Two, India (1939-1945)

People

Sir Claud John Eyre AUCHINLECK GCB GCIE CSI DSO OBE, (1884 - 1981)

Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of

Linlithgow, Doreen Maud Hope (Milner), Marchioness of

Interservices Public Relations Directorate

Dimensions

Width: 160 mm Text: 112 mm

Inscriptions

LORD LINLITHGOW’S DEPARTURE / Services Officers, Civil administrators, Princes, Ministers / and many friends gathered at the entrance to the Viceroy's / House to say farewell to Lord and Lady Linlithgow. Here / Lady Linlithgow stands on the steps while the departing / Viceroy inspects the guard of honour. / DRA/86. INTERSERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE, INDIA.