Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Sir Henry Abel Smith (1900-1993), army officer and governor, was born on 8 March 1900 at Westminster, London. He was tutored privately at home and, though a member of one of England’s oldest private-banking families, chose an army career. Entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the Royal Horse Guards in 1919.
He married Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge (1906-1994), a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Following a very successful military career during the course of World War II, Abel Smith was promoted to acting colonel in London in 1946, and served on the staff of the Household Cavalry at Whitehall and worked closely with King George Vi to revive the ceremonial life od the peacetime capital.
Abel Smith’s assumed the role of governor of Queensland on 18 March 1958. Queenslanders took an immediate liking to the couple and their popularity grew quickly. Both