| Description | Photograph album containing photographs of members of the Royal family and other dignitaries visiting CWGC cemeteries, memorials and events. Sites include Dunkirk, Groesbeek, Medjez-el-Bab, Brookwood, Athens, Ypres, Menin Gate, St James' Palace, Mill Hill, a Commonwealth-Italian Joint Committee Meeting, and Westminster Abbey. Album also contains 15 photographs at the back of various locations including the South Goodwin Lightship. |
| Content Note | List of photographs:
1) The Queen Mother and General Ganeval after the unveiling of the Dunkirk Memoiral. 1957
2) The Duke of Gloucester and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - Groesbeek Memorial, 1956
3) The Duke of Gloucester and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - Groesbeek Memorial, 1956
4) Earl Alexander of Tunis unveiled the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial 1956
5) The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Gloucester - Brookwood Memorial, 1958
6) The Queen and Mr. Christopher Soames. Brookwood Memorial 1958
7) The Duke of Edinburgh (at the Brookwood Memorial, 1958)
8) The Queen inspects the Brookwood Memorial in company with the architect, Ralph Hobday
9) The Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. Brookwood Memorial 1958
10) The Duke of Gloucester and the King of the Hellenes, Athens Memorial
11) The King and Queen of the Hellenes and the Princesses Sophia and Irene - Athens Memorial 1961
12) The King and Queen of the Hellenes and the Princesses Sophia and Irene - Athens Memorial 1961
13) The Queen at Ypres during the state visit to Belgium - 1966
14) The Queen at Ypres during the state visit to Belgium - 1966
15) The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Ypres during the state visit - 1966
16) The Queen at Ypres during the state visit to Belgium - 1966
17) The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and the King and Queen of the Belgians at the Menin Gate Memorial - state visit to Belgium 1966
18) The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the King and Queen of the Belgians at the Menin Gate Memorial. State visit to Belgium, 1966
19) The Duke of Gloucester presiding at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - St. James's Palace, 1967
20) The Duke of Gloucester presiding at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - St. James's Palace, 1967
21) The Duchess of Gloucester and M. Roland, Director General, Belgian Ministry of the Interior - Reception, St. James's Palace 1970
22) The Duchess of Gloucester and Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire at a reception in St. James's Palace, 1970
23) The Duchess of Gloucester and Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire at a reception in St. James's Palace, 1970
24) The Duke of Kent after appointment as President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission accompanied by Admiral Sir Guy Grantham - 1970
25) Visit to Netherlands Field of Honour, Mill Hill, by H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands April 1972
26) Visit to Netherlands Field of Honour, Mill Hill, by H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands April 1972
27) The Duke of Kent talking to a member of the Commonwealth/Italian Joint Committee at a reception in St. James's Palace, May 1972
28) The Duchess of Kent with members of the Commonwealth/Italian Joint Committee at a reception in St. James's Palace, May 1972
29) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother inspects the Commission's photographic exhibition in Westminster Abbey
30) HRH The Duke of Kent visits the Commission's photographic exhibition in Westminster Abbey
31) ...and signs the visitors' book (with my pen!!) |