The Royal Family in Wartime  32082

The illustrated story of the activities of the Royal Family in the service of People and Empire

Illustrations

  • Sceptre and Sword
    • [King and Queen] during London’s ordeal
    • [King George VI on telephone]
    • Reviewing Britain’s Naval Might [at Portsmouth?]
    • With the War Cabinet: Mr Morrison (Home Office), Lord Woolton (Reconstruction), Sir John Anderson (Exchequer), Mr Attlee (Deputy Prime Minister), H.M. The King, Mr Churchill (Prime Minister), Mr Eden (Foreign Affairs), Mr Lyttelton (Production), Mr Bevin (Labour)
    • United Nations’ Parade, 1942
    • At George Cross Island [King at Malta with huge crowd, 1943]
    • With Australian Troops in the Eastern Command
    • North Africa, 1943
  • In the Service of the People
    • Broadcasting to Britain and the Empire
    • Aboard HMS Royal Oak, sunk at Scapa Flow, 1939
    • Inspecting the Metropolitan Police
    • Greeting Australian Troops in Britain, 1940
    • At a New Zealanders’ Camp, 1940
    • With Contingents from Canada and Rhodesia, 1941
    • In the Maginot Line, December, 1939
    • Tour of Scottish Shipyards, 1942
    • The George Medal
    • The King meets and offers his congratulations to a die-caster in an aircraft factory whose prompt action had saved four women workers from being burned to death by molten metal
    • King and craftsman, 1941
    • Women’s Land Army, 1942 [with King and Queen]
    • At No 10, Downing Street, 1941
    • The Royal Family At Home
    • [The Queen] With Survivors of Dunkirk
    • Review of the Free French in Britain, with General de Gaulle, 1940
    • Norwegian Sailors parade at Plymouth, 1941
    • Tour of RAF Fighter Stations, 1942
    • Early Days (1940) of the L.D.V., afterwards the Home Guard
    • The Princess Royal visits a mixed A.A. Battery in Scotland
    • Queen Mary watches A.A. gunners at drill
    • The King and the Duke of Kent greet Mr Winant, US Ambassador, 1941
    • In a South London shelter, 1940
    • In Bermondsey, a much-bombed London borough, 1941
    • The wrecked Cathedral, Coventry, 1940
    • Visiting Britain’s Bombed Towns – Plymouth
    • Leaving a Badly Damaged Home at Hull, 1940
    • Through the damaged streets of Bath, 1942
    • Sheffield, 1940
    • Visit to Scotland – An Engineering Works, 1943
    • Devastation in the Elephant and Castle district, London, 1940
    • Birmingham, 1942
    • Swansea, 1941
    • At a Reception Centre for the Homeless on Merseyside, 1940
    • In Southampton, 1940
    • Buckingham Palace, September, 1940
    • The Duke of Gloucester sees work of the Royal Observer Corps
    • The King and Queen visit a Bomber Station, 1941
    • An Open-Air Investiture at Buckingham Palace, 1940
    • Investiture on the Field, France, 1944
    • Airborne Troops, 1944, Inspecting medical supplies and their containers
    • General Sir Miles Dempsey receives the accolade of knighthood, France, 1944
    • Aboard HMS Duke of York – entering a gun turret, 1943
    • God-speed visit to HMS George V, 1944
    • With men of the Merchant Navy, 1944
    • Men of the Drifters, 1942
    • ‘Human torpedo’ crews, 1944
    • Aboard USS Washington, 1942
    • At Combined Headquarters, inspecting Cross-Channel control, 1944
    • The Queen inspects a WRNS boat crew, 1942
    • Visiting troops in Scotland, 1943
    • Canadians receive the Princess Royal, 1941
    • A Guard of Honour at Belfast, 1942
    • Australians’ Gunnery Exercise, 1940
    • Inspection of an RAF Regiment in North Africa, 1943
    • Luncheon on the field, North Africa, 1943. The King’s companions are Sir James Grigg, Secretary of State for War, and the American Generals Clark and Patton.
    • Thanksgiving for North African Victory, 1943 [steps of St Paul’s Cathedral?]
    • The George Cross
    • Malta, 1943
    • In the streets of Senglea, Malta, 1943
    • with General Alexander in Italy, 1944
    • A Forward Observation Post, north of Arezzo, 1944
    • Lord Lovat’s Commando parades before the landing in Normandy, 1944
    • Touring invasion beaches, 1944
    • In the map lorry at Field-Marshal Montgomery’s HQ in Holland, 1944
    • With General Eisenhower, France, 1944
    • In the Netherlands, 1944
    • With the RAF in Belgium, 1944
    • The King meets the late Wing-Commander Guy Gibson, VC, on his return from landing the successful raid by RAF bombers on the great Ruhr dams in May, 1943
    • The Duchess of Kent watches American Airmen return from a raid, 1945
    • At a Northern Base, 1942
    • At the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital
    • WAAF guard of honour, 1943
    • The Princess Royal with wounded, 1944
    • ATS on parade, 1942
    • Inspecting Polish colours in the Scottish Command, 1941
    • In the woods at Bodmingham [Queen Mary]
    • Queen Mary’s Medallion
    • The Duchess of Kent at a colliery and a service club
    • The Duchess of Gloucester opening a club for service women, 1940
    • The Queen and Princess Elizabeth visit a school for crippled children, 1945
    • Queen Mary and the Lord Mayor after Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, 1945
    • Princess Elizabeth, Sea Ranger, 1944
    • Princess Elizabeth in the ATS, 1945
    • Inspecting Girls’ Training Corps, 1945
    • The Duke of Kent, killed on active service, 1942
    • Lord Lascelles, who was wounded and taken prisoner on the night of June 18-19, 1944, and released on May 5, 1945
    • Governor General of Australia. The Duke of Gliucester is seem with the Governor of Aden on his journey to Australia, of which he was appointed Governor General in November, 1943
    • Memorial Service to President Roosevelt, April, 1945
    • On the way to St Paul’s after victory, 1945. The Lord Mayor surrenders the City Sword.
    • Thanksgiving Sunday, May 13, 1945
    • Victory Tour of London
    • [King, Queen, Princess and Churchill on balcony of Buckingham Palace]
    • Victory [crowds outside Buckingham Palace]
Array
(
    [_edit_lock] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1588807556:1
        )

    [_edit_last] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1
        )

    [subtitle] => Array
        (
            [0] => The illustrated story of the activities of the Royal Family in the service of People and Empire
        )

)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.