officer and his research and experiments into steel wool are now kept in the Imperial War Museum Archive. There are photographs, drawings, samples of material, reports and memoranda. To his co-workers he became infamous for his nightly rambles through the blitzed London streets, ignoring air raid warnings, witnessing scenes which he would later immortalise in the Battle of Britain etchings series. During this time Gray's works still helped raise money for regimental charities, in particular the Fine Art Draw of May 1940, where 100 valuable original signed etchings and prints by celebrated artists were raffled for Andrew Paterson's Camerons’ Comforts Fund. Postwar oils Joseph Gray and Agnes later divorced and he married Mary Meade in 1943, and after the war he moved with his second wife to Marlow, Buckinghamshire where he focused on oil painting, but despite producing a great many canvases he proved increasingly reluctant to part with any. Gray died on 1 May 1963 and it was only after his death that his widow was able to organise an exhibition of his paintings, held at the Grosvenor Galleries in 1966. Public collections His work is represented in the British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, the Imperial War Museum, Dundee City Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery, The Highlanders Museum at Fort George, South Shields Museum, the Highlanders Museum and in many private collections. In 2013 original samples of his preliminary sketches for the war paintings hanging in The Highlanders' Museum at Fort George went on display there. References External links 1890 births 1963 deaths 20th-century English painters English male painters People from Durham, England World War I artists British war artists People associated with Dundee 20th-century English male artists