A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower

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A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower
A colour photocopy, 26in. x 33in. of a map showing Europe, Iceland, Greenland, The Eastern Atlantic and part of North Africa, headed AIR MINISTRY, METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE and dated in manuscript TUESDAY JUNE 6TH 1944 - 1300 GMT, copiously annotated with Meteorological symbols in black and red ink; together with a photocopy of a typewritten memorandum originally classified SECRET headed SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, G-3 (OPS) DIVISION, 21 JUNE 1944 and signed J M STAGG/CHIEF METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER. This memo summarises the weather which prevailed from the 17th to the 21st June 1944, (the next possible time for the D-Day landings had they been postponed from 6th June), and concludes that landings during this period would have been virtually impossible. The letter is annotated in manuscript by General Eisenhower: Stagg/Thanks - I thank the Gods of War we went when did! DE.
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Lot Essay

As befitted a regiment which bore the Prince of Wales's title, Edward VIII (as he subsequently became) was appointed Colonel in Chief of the Leinster Regiment shortly before their disbandment in 1922.

The Gerald Boyd whose signature appears below that of the Prince was Major General Sir Gerald Farrell Boyd KCB,CMG,DSO,DCM, who served with the Leinsters from 1904 until 1915 and later became their Honorary Colonel.