Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939 - 1957 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
54 photographs
Scope and content
Collection of photographs and newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to Kennedy's career, mostly official photographs dating from his period as Director of Military Operations and Plans at the War Office, London, Oct 1940-Oct 1943 and Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office, London, all illustrating major figures in the government, the War Office and the Army at this time, including official photographs of visit to BEF (British Expeditionary Force) positions in France and Belgium, Nov 1939; photograph of portrait of Kennedy by the War Office artist Henry Lamb, 1941; photograph of Kennedy as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, posing in full regalia with Catherine Kennedy, Lady Kennedy [1950], photograph of portrait of Kennedy in uniform of Governor of Southern Rhodesia, painted by F. Wiles for the Southern Rhodesia Parliament, [1950]. 54 photographs