Tuesday 10 June 2008

When Churchill met Montgomery

As readers will have gathered, Alf is losing his memory but some of his photo's speak a thousand words.

This was taken by Alf, at the exact moment Sir Winston Churchill first shook hands with Field Marshall Montgomery after he arrived in the desert. The faces on the soldiers behind show what a moment this must have been for them all, ducking under the shadows of the wing of the plane he arrived on...