Private Morris, 1st Airborne Division’s HQ, Hartenstein Hotel, 20 September 1944 (b/w photo)

Private Morris of Acton, London, on guard at 1st Airborne Division’s HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel, 20 September 1944. Photograph by Sergeant D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944. The divisional flag, bearing Pegasus the flying horse of Greek mythology, can be seen behind Morris. When the division withdrew across the Rhine, Corporal Frank Hancock untied the pennant and stashed it in his battledress. He later presented it to Major-General Roy Urquhart, commander of 1st Airborne Division. The same pennant is now on display at the Airborne Museum at Oosterbeek. From a collection of 75 British official photographs relating to 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, Operation MARKET GARDEN,September 1944.