M0015236: Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, at a presentation of ambulances at Buckingham Palace, 1943

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Group Portrait-Sir Ernest Gowers, at an ambulance inspection ? by Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother)

To the right of the Queen is Sir Allen Daley, Lord Ammon, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, Lord Latham and Sir Ernest Gowers (just visible). The photograph is from a personal album belonging to Sir Wiliam Allen Daley (1887-1969) British physician and Medical Officer of Health. It was lent to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

September 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.