Winston Churchill visits the HQ of 21st Army Group, château de Creullet.

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Churchill poses for the camera during his visit to the advanced HQ of the 21st Army Group on the 12th of June.

Pictured with him from left to right are ...

Lieut-Gen. Miles Christopher Dempsey, commander 2nd Army.

Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, CIGS

General Bernard-Law Montgomery, commander 21st Army Group

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.

Seen behind them is the famous caravan that served as Montgomeries field quarters from the Desert, into Sicilly and Italy and thence through France and Belguim into Germany.