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Secretary of State for War, Captain David Margesson, accompanying the Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a visit to the Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness, June 1941. Official photograph by Major W G Horton, War Office photographer, World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), 13 June 1941. Margesoon, in bowler hat, pointing with an umbrella, confers with the Director of Artillery, Major General Clarke (far left). Margesson served with the 11th Hussars during World War One (1914-1918). The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair (second from left) served with Churchill on the Western Front. The naval officer (fifth from left) is Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. From an album containing 58 photographs relating to the Auxiliary Territorial Service Experimental Gunnery Assistants and the Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness, Essex, 1940-1941.

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)