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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.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

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

  Political Personalities: Full length portrait of the Maharanee of Jaipur wearing a sari.

• 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 Madame Sun Yat-Sen, widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, in Chungking.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: POLITICAL AND MILITARY PERSONALITIES

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

  Military Personalities: Major General Claire Chennault, Commander of the "Flying Tigers" who flew the air link over the Himalayas between India and China, photographed in his flying jacket 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

  Military Personalities: Major General Claire Chennault, Commander of the "Flying Tigers", with Major General Gordon Grimsdale, Commander of the British Military Mission to China.

• THE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  A portrait by Cecil Beaton of an Indian naval rating operating a signal lamp on the sloop SUTLEJ at the Royal Indian Naval Station at Calcutta.

• INDIAN PILOTS TRAIN FOR THE INDIAN AIR FORCE

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

  A student Indian IAF pilot with flying kit photographed beside his Hurricane before a training flight at a Flying Training School at Kohat, in the North West Frontier Province of India. The Commanding Officer of the station was Wing Commander Mukerjee.

• 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 at a camouflaged position in the Arakan jungle.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A destitute boy with a wicker basket in the Poor People's Refuge in Changsa.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A temple boy moves his hands over an ancient bronze bowl to make it "sing" and spray water.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A river coolie sitting in a ferry boat 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: Four coolies carry their loads on a single pole up the wharfside steps at Chungking.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: An old woman seated on a small chair clutching a teapot in the Poor People's Refuge in Changsa.

• 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 shorts and shirt) with wicker baskets beside a wall with Chinese characters in Puncheng in south eastern China.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: Young village boys beside a river in Bengal, one climbs a tree trunk while his friends watch.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: Chinese troops practising a march past at the Chinese Military Academy at Chengtu.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A scholar and former Minister of the Interior, Chow Chung-yuch, seated beside a studded door.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A Chinese man dramatically lit as he stands between sun and shadow in Chengtu.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: An enterprising Chinese craftsman sewing a string of small American flags in his shop in Chengtu.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A Chengtu wine shop; the shopkeeper leans on the counter surrounded by his wares.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  China 1944: A mother resting her head on her sick child's pillow in the Canadian Mission Hospital in Chengtu.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: A Bengali mother and child standing against a wall of corrugated iron and brick.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: A Bengali boy seated at his spinning wheel, his thread catching the sunlight.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: A group of women seen from behind as they wait outside the Hindu mosque in the city of Jaipur.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: A rag merchant displaying his wares outside the Jama Masjid Mosque, Old Delhi.

• BRITISH GENERALS 1939-1945

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

  Field Marshal Earl Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester (1883 - 1950): Wavell, Viceroy of India at his desk in Delhi.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

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

  India 1944: Sikh recuits at bayonet practice at a Frontier Constabulary Training Post. Their puggarees (turbans) are lined up in the foreground.

• MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION

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

  Cecil Beaton portrait of an Indian Tochi Scout firing his Lee Enfield rifle on the North West frontier of India, circa 1944.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS INDIA, BURMA AND CHINA

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

  Album 1 contains: portraits of Field Marshal Earl Wavell, Viceroy of India and his wife, at the Viceroy's House in Delhi; various scenes at the Viceroy's Leave Camp showing views of the interior and exterior of the house and portraits of officers...

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS INDIA, BURMA AND CHINA

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

  Album 19 contains: scenes at Ginling Girls College evacuated to Chengtu including: students leaving class, during lessons, in the library, practicing archery and Chinese dance, views of the college buildings and grounds, portraits of Dr Wu, President of...

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS INDIA, BURMA AND CHINA

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

  Album 14 contains: series entitled 'Chinese Actors' showing: actors on stage in Chengtu and various portraits of actors including Liu Kwei-Kuan, Chow Gee Whan and Wang Hsia-Chun; series entitled 'Peking Opera Theatre' showing: portraits of actresses...