On 17 November 1954 Field Marshall Montgomery admires the cake made for his birthday of that date. Montgomery was visiting Canada and stayed at the home of LCol Trumbull Warren, who had been Montgomery’s Personal Assistant during the Italian campaign, through D-Day to the end of the war. Behind Montgomery is LCol Warren and his wife Mary. Two of Warren’s daughters are present, the youngest Joan standing on the table and the second daughter Ann in the middle. Montgomery was Ann’s godfather. The cake shows Canadian soldiers, a tank and carrier, passing the Reviewing Stand on which Field Marshall Montgomery was taking the salute on the Victory in Europe parade held on 8 May 1945 and has on it a tank and a carrier, and is evocative of the times spent together by Warren and Montgomery.

Photo Binder 9 pg 208