St. James's Palace as a parcels depot, WWII
The state rooms of St. James's Palace transformed into a parcel depot for the Red Cross, where comforts, clothes and medical supplies were dispatched to POWs overseas. Photograph shows the Picture Gallery, used as the packing department for personal parcels while Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII looks on
Picture No
14122817
Media ID
48876252
Size
538px x 600px
(6.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler', 26 June 1940, page 496
Date
1940
