page_title: Southwick House
section_title: D-day preparation
hierarchical_section_title: Southwick House / History / D-day preparation
caption_attribution_description: English: Southwick house D day map room
context_page_description: Southwick House is a Grade II listed 19th-century manor house of the Southwick Estate in Hampshire, England, about 5 miles north of Portsmouth. It is home to the Defence School of Policing and Guarding, and related military police capabilities.
context_section_description: In 1944, in the months leading up to D-Day, the house became the headquarters of the main allied commanders, including Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower, Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Ramsay and Army Commander-in-Chief General Montgomery.
  The large wall maps that were used on D-Day are still in place in the house in the main map room.
caption: D-Day map in map room, 2019, with markers for positions of forces at the 6 June 1944 landings
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