The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of Field Marshal Baron Haig of Bemersyde, KT, GCVO, GCB, KCB, KCVO, CB. The inscription reads, 'To General Sir C B B White, Australian Forces - In kindly remembrance of his friendly cooperation during the Great War in France, Haig FM, 26 Feb, 1922'. Born in Edinburgh, Sir Douglas Haig served in India with the 7th Hussars and in the Boer War. At the outbreak of the First World War he was a Lieutenant General commanding the 1st Army Corps within the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). In December 1915 he was appointed Commander in Chief of the BEF. He is best known for his involvement in the Somme offensive, starting in July 1916, which led to extremely heavy British casualties, and the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). In 1918 Haig oversaw the British advances on the Western Front that led to the Allied victory in November. He was made Baron Haig of Bemersyde in 1921. After the war he was Commander in Chief of the British Home Forces, retiring in 1921.
A formal portrait of Field Marshal (FM) the Rt Hon Archibald Percival, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC (1883-1950). Born at Colchester, England on 5 May 1883, FM Wavell was a distinguished
A signed studio portrait of General Sir Edmund Allenby GCB GCMG GCVO, Commander of the British Army in Palestine 1917-1919.
France. c. 1916. Three British Army Commanders in conference at Camblain-Chatelain, from the left, Generals Sir Herbert Plumer GCB GCMG GCVO GBE, Commanding Second Army, General Sir Edmund Allenby GCB
PORTRAIT OF ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW BROWNE CUNNINGHAM, GCB, KCB, DSO. COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
1944-10-30. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder GCB, Deputy Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe.
STUDIO PORTRAIT OF SIR ANDREW BROWNE CUNNINGHAM GCB KCB DSO, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FORCES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. (DONOR C. OLIVER, ORIGINAL ALBUM HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE)
