photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1957-10-9-2-27
Description
At the Viceroy Presidential Palace, New Delhi, in 1943, British and Indian Army soldiers, Princes, Ministers, and friends of Lord Linlithgow commemorate his departure as Viceroy. Air Vice Marshal Garrod says farewell to Lady Linlithgow. Garrod was the Deputy Allied Air Commander-in-Chief at South East Asia Command at this time. 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)