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Paratroops outside Breville
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
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Bréville
Bréville, Battle, 12 June 1944
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Paratroops outside Breville
support: 562 × 787 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05728</b> PARATROOPS OUTSIDE BRéVILLE 1944</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Albert Richards’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 22 1/8×31 (56×78·5).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (770).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> V. &amp; A., <i>Twentieth Century British Water-Colours</i>, 1958, pl.38.</p>
<p>There is a typed label on the back of this picture with the following words: ‘9 Bn., Paratroops outside Bréville (there to stay)’. Bréville is a village between Caen and the sea and was the scene of a successful battle waged by the Parachute Regiment of the 6th Airborne Division on 12 June 1944. The taking of Bréville closed a gap in the Allied arc of advance that the Germans never attempted to reopen. (Information from W. P. Mayes, Imperial War Museum, 7 November 1962.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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actions: postures and motions adults Bréville Bréville, Battle, 12 June 1944 campfire cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents forest France heating and lighting history landscape lying down man military military: World War II objects people places soldier work and occupations