photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1995-01-47-4
Description
Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspecting a Quick Firing 2 -Pounder anti-tank gun during a visit to the Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness, 1 June 1941. Official photograph by Major W G Horton, War Office photographer, World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), 13 June 1941. The Prime Minister was accompanied by the Secretary of State for War, Captain David Margesson (behind the gunner, wearing a bowler hat) and the the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair. From an album containing 58 photographs relating to the Auxiliary Territorial Service Experimental Gunnery Assistants and the Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness, Essex, 1940-1941.
Campaigns
World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)
