2-693-633 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'H.M. King George V Talking To Sir Walter Lawrence and Mir Dast, V.C., After the Investiture of the 25th August 1915', (1939). King George V and Queen Mary visited Brighton Pavilion while it was being used as a military hospital during the First World War. The King personally decorated ten of the wounded Indian officers and one Indian non-commissioned officer. From A History of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Henry D. Roberts. [Country Life Limited, London, 1939]