NAM.1981-11-72-66

Photograph, officers of the 23rd Indian Division, sitting around a table at lunch following the visit and parade for General Sir Claude Auchinleck, 13 July 1945. Including, from left to right, Capt Currie, Lt Col William Robin Palmer Ridgeway (personal secretary to the Commander in Chief), Col L H D Pugh, Maj Gen D Bateman (Director of Military Training, GHQ(I), Lt Gen O L Roberts (Corps Command), Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Maj Gen D C Hawthorn, Air Vice-Marshal the Earl of Bandon, Maj Gen E C Beard (Area Commander), Brig R W Andrews, Lt Col R W Atkinson, Col J Sarkis, F/Lt Mullick, Capt H Kay, Lt Col R E Holloway, Col R de Burgh Morris, Lt Col J H Trim, Brig N MacDonald, Capt R C S Garwood, RN, Maj Gen R A Savory, Brig A W S Mallaby, Brig R C M Kings, Brig Balwant Singh, Lt Col John Arthur Mellsop, ADC to C-in-C, Lt Gracia (ADC to Gen Beard) and Lt Forty (ADC to Gen Roberts). One of 68 photographs in an album collected for the history of 23rd Indian Division.

World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)