'At a Battlefield Cemetery in Egypt', 1942, (1945). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pays his respects at a military cemetery near El Alamein in the Western Desert. El Alamein was the site of two major battles of the Second World War. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]