1943 Exhibition of British war pictures exhibition

and voluntary escorts. Each child brings spare ANTHONY GROSS. clothes, gas mask, identity card, ration book, and food for the day; and wears a label. More than a 38. FITTING RECRUITS WITH CLOTHING. million British school children were evacuated in Water Colour. 7 x 12k. this manner. 34. EVACUEES IN A COTTAGE AT COOKHAM. 3 9 . SQUAD PARADING ON THE SQUARE. Lithograph. 134- x 12k. Water Colour. 81 x 13. Mrs. Norris of Cookham, with five of her war family of seven children from London who had by January, 1941 been with her for sixteen months. 40. COOK HOUSE. Mrs. Norris is the ideal foster-parent, and fortunately Water Colour. 7k x 12k. there are many other householders like her. With over 1,000,000 children from the evacuation areas, blktting must always be the principal means of finding * homes for them. Shown friendliness and care, town 41. RECRUITS AT M A C H I N E G U N PRACTICE AT THE * . children readily adapt themselves to their new 30 YARDS RANGE. surroundings. Water Colour. 74 x 124 , . . . . 35. Boys FROM SOUTH-EAST LONDON GATHERING STICKS IN COOKHAM W O O D . 2 BREN G U N RANGE, O U T ON THE MOORS Aw Lithograph. 12* x 18*. Water Colour. 7 x l21 . These London boys find a new and healthy way of life in the country which is in itself an education. CHARLES PEARS The continue to go to school and, being boys, the y 43 h . SQUAD OF DRIVING AND MAINTENANCE RECRUITS country is not dull for them. any o them, if they STUDYING T A N K MAINTENANCE. The Jervis Bay Action have their way, will stay there and will grow lip on the land. Waler Colour. 7* x 12*. The first picture shows recruits being fitted out 36. NURSERY SCHOOL, WATLINGTON PARK. with uniforms at one of the Guards' Depots. In the Lithograph. I 5* x 11*. second they are seen on the parade ground, while the third shows the excellently-planned cook. house Since war broke out some 10,000 little children at the depot. The fourth drawing is of recruits under five years of age have been moved from nursery belonging to the Royal Armoured Corps at short-range schools and from day and residential nurseries in the machine-gun practice, the fifth shows them learning to cities into residential quarters in the country, and 150 fire Bren guns on an open range on the moors, and big country houses in England now serve as nursery the last represents a squad learning how to keep homes for them. Grented ample space and skilled armoured fighting vehicles in good working order. supervision, there is no better way of caring for little children whose mothers cannot leave the evacuation areas with them. DUNCAN GRANT. ROBIN GUTHRIE. 37. G U N DRILL. Oil. 31kx40k. 44. SERGEANT FEETHAM, A R M Y COOK. A painting of outstanding artistic interest and also Pencil. 17 x 13*. a careful record of the highly important work of A portrait of an instructor at the Army School of training future gun-crews for His Majesty's ships. Cookery. 18