Leonard Cheshire

PCheshireGL1830.jpg
PCheshireGL1831.jpg

Title

Leonard Cheshire

Description

Half-length portrait of Leonard Cheshire wearing tropical uniform jacket with rolled up sleeves and side cap. Visible is group captain rank, pilot's brevet and medal ribbons for Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross. In the background trees. On the reverse 'A4, C1 842, 51:80'. Reported to be probably taken during his posting to Eastern Command 1944. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.

Date

1944

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Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Rights

This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.

Identifier

PCheshireGL1830; PCheshireGL1831

Collection

Citation

“Leonard Cheshire,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 30, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/17023.

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