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Pen & ink sketches made during service aboard an LCG (landing craft gun) during WW2. LCGs were primarily used to provide direct fire against beach positions.
From a collection of art by P. George, Royal Navy.
#ww2 #LCG #royalnavy #art #artist #penandink #warart

Army art!
Donald Akroyd of 4 Durham Survey Regiment kept this caricature of himself which was sketched in 1942. He donated it to us along with his photographs, memoir, and other wartime memorabilia.
#ww2 #army #art #sketch #caricature #caricatureartist

Robert Lee from Bingley, 150 Bde was captured at Gazala.
He painted The Last Supper, & carved the Frauenkirche Angel in memory of the refugees he witnessed fleeing Dresden during the raids of Feb 1945.
#WW2 #gazala #art #Dresden #Angel #woodcarving #bingley

Brigade Intelligence Officer Iain Tennant, 201 Guards Brigade, in the Western Desert.
He was captured at Tobruk.
We have Sir Tennant's privately published book, POW diary & interview.
#ww2 #Army #westerndesert #tobruk #POW #art #warart #Watercolour

See https://t.co/6C0anYlhre for our journal issues featuring first-hand accounts of women in war.
#InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2022
#womenpower

Envelopes painted by Alfred crisp, containing letters sent to his daughters.
Alfred, a fire watcher in East Dulwich, had poor health due to being gassed at Ypres WW1. His envelopes were all kept and are now preserved in our archive.
#ww2 #Christmas #envelopeart #painting #art

WW2 RAF Navigator Stan Hope https://t.co/iVUYtOKm5l via @YouTube
on baling out of his Mosquito over Belgium & how he coped with solitary confinement & interrogation in Fresnes Prison, France.
#ww2 #RAF #mosquito #prison #fresnes

WW2 mustard gas disaster:
A German air raid on the port of Bari, Italy, on 2 Dec 1943 sunk 27 ships. One of those was the American Liberty ship John Harvey which was carrying a secret cargo of 2,000 mustard gas bombs.
https://t.co/00ssCmYFtW
#ww2 #bari #disaster #italy

RAF navigator Stan Hope had to bale out of his Mosquito due to engine failure on 8 Dec 1942.
During his time as a POW, Stan spent 114 days in solitary confinement.
More at https://t.co/00ssCmYFtW
#ww2 #RAF #dehavilland #mosquito #POW #solitaryconfinement

Another of our wartime artists:
Leeds-born freelance artist P M Peel was conscripted into the Army & became a POW at Stalag 8B where he produced/designed sets for the camp theatrical productions & made forged ID documents for would-be escapees.
#ww2 #POW #art #ArtistOnTwitter