2-950-972 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Farewell To Civil Defence', 10 June 1945, (1947). Stand-down parade of Civil Defence Forces, Hyde Park, London, end of the Second World War. Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and her mother the Queen admire Peter, a member of one of the canine rescue squads. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. [Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947]