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• THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST: THE BURMA CAMPAIGN 1941-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  The Arakan Campaign January 1943 - May 1945: A Gurkha soldier assisting a wounded comrade.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Military Personalities: Half length portrait of General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Indian Army.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Cecil Beaton self portraits: Cecil Beaton (in civilian suit) and his Rolleiflex reflected in a mirror of the Jain temple, Calcutta, India.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  China 1944: The Chinese Police Force; the Assistant Chief of Police and his staff grouped in a circular doorway at headquarters in Chengtu.

• MEDICAL SERVICES IN INDIA, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  A British sister instructs an Indian nurse how to adjust a doctor's mask at a first aid post in Calcutta.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  China 1944: Two Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks at Pihu Military Training Centre in south eastern China.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  China 1944: A small boy posing with his fan above his head in Chengtu.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  India 1944: Full length portrait of the dancer, Ram Gopal, in traditional pose and costume against a wall dappled with sunlight.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  India 1944: A soldier drinking a cup of tea next to a Red Cross Mobile tea wagon at Calcutta airport.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  India 1944: A Gurkha soldier transporting a wounded man on his back through the jungle.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  India 1944: Three stokers of the Royal Indian Navy on the mess deck of the sloop HMIS SUTLEJ.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  India 1944: A gunner, Anthony Liddell, enjoying a bath at the leave camp on the Viceroy's estate at Simla.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Making noodles by hand in the Sze-Chwan province of China. Lengths of noodles strectched out to dry in the sun.

• SCENES IN INDIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  An Indian nurse at an ARP First Aid Post in Calcutta.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Military Personalities: Half length portrait of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia, shown in naval uniform without his hat out of doors.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Military Personalities: Half length portrait of Air Chief Marshal Philip Joubert de la Ferte, Deputy Chief of Staff for Information and Civil Affairs, South East Asia Command, seated at his desk.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Political Personalities: Three quarter length portrait of Princess Durri Shehvar Berar, only daughter of the former Sultan of Turkey, photographed wearing a jewelled sari in India.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton Cecil

  Political Personalities: Half length portrait of Lieutenant General Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, Mr Churchill's special representative in Chungking.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Political Personalities: Mr R G Casey, the Australian diplomat who became Governor of Bengal, seated on a sofa at Government House, Calcutta, India.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Political Personalities: The Governor of Bombay, Sir John Colville, with Lady Colville, in formal dress.