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Sir Charles ("Peter") Portal GCB, DSO, MC. Air Chief Marshal and later Marshal of the Royal Airforce, Viscount Portal of Hungerford.
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BRITISH WAR CABINET
Fourteen clipped signatures of members of the war cabinet of August 1942, laid down on one page, the signatures include Winston. S. Churchill, C. R. Atlee, Herbert Morrison, Ernest Bevin, L. S. Amery, Archibald Sinclair, J. J. Llewellin, Lord Beaverbrook, Dudley Pound, Alan Brooke, Viscount Trenchard, Anthony Eden, Oliver Lyttelton and Charles Portal; together with a 1p. a.l.s., signed by Peter Portal, dated Air Ministry, King Charles Street, Whitehall, S.W.1., 12th August 1942, all in common frame.
Fourteen clipped signatures of members of the war cabinet of August 1942, laid down on one page, the signatures include Winston. S. Churchill, C. R. Atlee, Herbert Morrison, Ernest Bevin, L. S. Amery, Archibald Sinclair, J. J. Llewellin, Lord Beaverbrook, Dudley Pound, Alan Brooke, Viscount Trenchard, Anthony Eden, Oliver Lyttelton and Charles Portal; together with a 1p. a.l.s., signed by Peter Portal, dated Air Ministry, King Charles Street, Whitehall, S.W.1., 12th August 1942, all in common frame.