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Liberation and Battle France Cherbourg Battalion HQ East Yorks
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
actions: postures and motions
adults
army
groups
history
individuals: male
James, R.B., Lieutenant-Colonel
landscape
lying down
man
map
military
military: World War II
Morgan, H., Lieutenant
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
scientific and measuring
soldier
Western European Campaign, 1944-5
wooded
work and occupations
paper unique ink watercolour
Liberation and Battle of France: Cherbourg, Battalion H.Q. of the East Yorks
support: 394 × 571 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05699</b>	LIBERATION AND BATTLE OF FRANCE: CHERBOURG. BATTALION H.Q. OF THE EAST YORKS (50TH NORTHUMBRIAN DIVISION) IN AN ORCHARD, NORMANDY 1944
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Anthony Gross 44’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 15 1/2×22 1/2 (39×57).
<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 (754).</p>
<p>The officers reading a map are Lieutenant H. Morgan, Signals Officer, and Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. James, D.S.O. and two Bars, Battalion Commander.</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, I</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults army groups history individuals: male James, R.B., Lieutenant-Colonel landscape lying down man map military military: World War II Morgan, H., Lieutenant named individuals objects people portraits scientific and measuring soldier Western European Campaign, 1944-5 wooded work and occupations