Chiefs of Staff Conference Room

The Chiefs of Staff - the professional heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force - were allocated this conference room in the spring of 1941. This was one of the series of rooms into which the Cabinet War Rooms expanded in the same year. This sequence of rooms, now known as the ‘Churchill Suite’, was restored and opened to the public in 2003.

The original naval charts on the walls were found behind a false wall in the basement Map Room of the Admiralty and were restored to their present condition in 2003. As restoration was taking place a number of interesting annotations were noticed, including a cartoon of Hitler. These charts were used by Churchill during the first year of the war when he was First Lord of the Admiralty.