HM The King meeting Officers of the 5th Bn.
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-26-39

Description

Copy photograph of King George VI meeting Officers of the 5th Battalion Grenadier Guards, probably Tunisia, 1942. He shakes their hands as he walks down the line greeting them. The officers include Maj E J B Nelson and Lt Col G C Gordon-Lennox. From an album of 96 photographs entitled: ‘The Regiment 1940s’; with images taken between 1940 and 1949 in places such as Windsor, the Guards Depot, Germany, Belgium and Tunisia.

Campaigns

World War Two, North Africa (1940-1945)