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Uncrowned portrait of King George VI left, legend around, designer's initials below truncation.
Note: with title 'IND:IMP'
Script: Latin
Lettering:
GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP.
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Unabridged legend: Georgius VI Dei Gratia Britanniarum Omnium Rex Fidei Defensor Indiae Imperator
Translation: George the Sixth by the Grace of God King of all the Britains Defender of the Faith Emperor of India
Event happening in this year:
January 1424 WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next stage of the war.
January 15 WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign Operation Ke: Japanese forces begin to withdraw from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
February 10March 3 Mohandas Gandhi (under arrest by forces of the British Raj in Pune as a member of the Quit India Movement) keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
March 14 WWII: British submarine HMS Thunderbolt is sunk off Sicily by an Italian corvette, the second time this vessel has been lost with all hands.
July 4 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash: The aircraft carrying General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, crashes, killing him and 15 others, leading to a lasting controversy over the circumstances.
