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William Charles Brittain (known as 'Carl') was a lance-corporal of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was serving in No. 4 Commando at the time of his capture in Suda Bay, Crete, in June 1941. [1] During the Second World War he became a member of the "staff" at the PoW "holiday camp" in Genshagen, Berlin in mid-1943 [ 2 ] and later a ...
"A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War". (London: Old Street Publishing). Hichberger, J.W.M. (1988). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815–1914. Manchester: University Press. Knott, Richard, The Sketchbook War. The History Press, 2013. Sillars, Stuart (1987). Art and Survival in First World War ...
British Rank Unit/Ship Landwehr number 1. N/A [n 1] SS-Mann Alexander William J. Clyde "arrived towards the end of September 1944... a Glaswegian … the victim of compulsion because of his sexual liaisons with a German girl" "Tough, tattooed". [16] He was selected to box for the SS pioneers against the SS police in Prague in late 1944, but ...
Pages in category "British Army personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,093 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
To the Unknown British Soldier in France is an oil-on-canvas painting by Irish artist Sir William Orpen, exhibited in one state in 1923 and then modified in 1927. It was one of three paintings commissioned from Orpen to commemorate the Peace Conference at Versailles in 1919. The work is held by the Imperial War Museum in London. [1] [2]
Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits.
From 1879 until 1922, he exhibited pictures at the Royal Academy, National Watercolour Society and elsewhere. [2] His first picture exhibited at the Royal Academy was entitled "Football" but he followed this up with his first military painting in 1881 entitled "The rescue of Private Andrews by Captain Garnet J. Wolseley , H.M. 90th L.I. at the ...
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...