IWM shared this image on Twitter: THE GRAVE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER OUTSIDE CASSINO, 19 MAY 1944. © IWM (TR 1801) IWM Non Commercial License Which led me, as it often does, to look up the chap who took it. Really worth a shufti at his IWM 'album'. The man who took that colour shot of a Tiger on its side near Rome had quite an eye, and a good feel for the colour film. Some splendid shots, mostly in Italy: Search objects | Imperial War Museums - AR Tanner (Captain)
The A.F.P.U. war diary entry for 22nd April 1944 notes that Captain Tanner is the official colour photographer on assignment for M.O.I. Captain Tanner's portrait of General Alexander on the cover of Illustrated in 1944. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY, GENERAL SIR HAROLD ALEXANDER, IN CASERTA, ITALY, 4 MAY 1944
Captain Edward G. Malindine, another experienced press man, was the colour photographer in North West Europe. FIELD MARSHAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY, 1944. © IWM (TR 2652) IWM Non Commercial License THE VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER, WINSTON CHURCHILL TO CAEN, NORMANDY, 22 JULY 1944. © IWM (TR 2043) IWM Non Commercial License
