1943 Exhibition of British war pictures exhibition

50. PILOT OFFICER M. J. HERRICK, D.F.C. JAMES MILLER. PAUL NASH. RN., was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross Pastel. 20 x 1 5L 54. COUNCIL HOUSE, BURNSIDE. for valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving 60. MAKING READY. A WELLINGTON BEING BOMBED his life to save the many ships it was his d u t y to protect. Pilot Officer Herrick was born in 1921, and was Water Colour. 14 x l 8 . Up. educated at Wanganui College School, New Zealand. Water Colour. 16 22. The ships shown in this picture are (from right to He was granted a cadetship at Cranwell in 1939. A scene showing damage to civilian property in left): the German battle cruiser, H.M.S. Jervis Bay, &otland, painted by a Scottish artist. San Demetrio, Rangiliki, Trewellard, Cornish City, In March, 1940, he was given a commission as a pilot officer on probation. During an interception 61. WELLJNGTONS ABOUT TO FLY. Empire Penguin, and Eroclona. San Demelrio was patrol on the night of 4th September, 1940, Pilot shelled and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her but, Officer Herrick sighted two enemy aircraft and Water Colour. 1 X 1SL later, a handful of her men, adrift in one of the life destroyed them both. In his attack against the boats, found the blazing tanker again, boarded her, put HENRY MOORE. out the fires, got the engnes going, and brought her second aircraft, he succeeded in closing to within 30 yards and it fell in pieces under his fire. 55. SHELTERERS IN THE TUBE. , 62. EAST ANGLIA HEINKEL. back to England across the Atlantic. 22 X 1 . Water Colour. 2.- Londoners asleep in an Underground station. Three water colours by an artist who worked for 51. SQUADRON LEADER P. G. JAMESON, D.F.C. Hncy More's imaginative treatment is an interesting the Air Ministry in the present war and who, like his contrast to the realistic drawings by Topolski and , brother, John Nash, also represented in this exhibition, JOHN PIPER. Pastel. 23 x 1 7 . Kapp. made a reputation for himself with his pictures of the last war. The first two subjects show our Squadron Leader Jameson was born at Wellington, 65. CHRIST CHURCH, NEWGATE STREET, 1ST JANUARY, 1941. New Zealand, in 1912, and was granted a short bombers being prepared for a flight over enemy Tempera. 30 x 35. service commission in the Royal Air Force in 1936. territory, and ready to take off; the third shows the Leading his flight over completely strange country fate of one of the many German aircraft which were An imaginative rendering of the havoc caused by HARRY MORLEY, A. R. A. brought down during the Battle of Britain. Nazi bombers in one of the many London churches. during operations in the Narvik area, he discovered and set on fire two four-engined flying boats which 56. THE British Chancellor IN DRY DOCK. were concealed against the almost vertical side of Oil. 20 x 24. Rombaksfjord. Next morning he destroyed a Junkers 88 over Ofotfjord. One of the ships which have been skilfully brought R. V. PITCHFORTH. back to port i n spite o f serious damage by the enemy. ROY NOCKOLDS. 66. STEEL WORKERS. 63. STALKING THE NIGHT RAIDER. Oil. 32 x 49. 57. TANK INSTRUCTION, FIGHTING VEHICLE SCHOOL. Oil. 25 30. This picture of steel workers beside a tub of molten Oil. 20 x 30. A night fighter, o n the watch for German bombers, metal was used by the Ministry of Information as a HENRY LAMB, A. R. A. A squad of recruits are seen clambering on to a patrols the sky far abcve the English coast. design f o r a poster. tank to listen to a lecture by their instructor. 52. ELEVEN O'CLOCK ON DECK. Oil. 20x24. A group of trawlermen, working as minesweepers, CHARLES PEARS. 67. ST. ANNE'S, SOHO. enjoying a cup of tea while their ship is in harbour. JOHN NASH, A. R. A. , Water Colour. 29 x 21. 64. THE J e r v i s Bay ACTION. 58. DOCKYARD FIRE. Oil. 30 x 60. Effects of German night bombing in the autumn of Oil. 20 x 32. 1940. This drawing was made soon after the event, On the 5th November, 1940, His l\'Iajestv's Airred and before the debris had been cleared away. St. The artist helped to fight this dockyard fire. H s ' Merchant Cruiser Jervis Boy was escorting 38 Anne's, Soho, is one of the many famous London painting shows a gang o f m e n hauling a b u r n i n g ship merchantmen, w h e n she sighted the powerful German churches which have suffered through indiscriminate FRANCES MACDONALD. to safety while firemen play their hoses on flames warship eon Scheer. She at once drew clear of the bombing. on the quay. convoy and, making straight fcr the enemy, came 53. GRAVEYARD (No. 1 METAL AND PRODUCE RECOVERY between t h e raider a n d her prey, so that the latter DEPOT). might scatter and escape. Crippled, in flames, and 68. PICCADILLY, MANCHESTER, JANUARY, 1941. Oil. 17 x 28. 59. A CONVOY. Oil. 32 x 49. unable to reply, she held the German's fire for nearly Water Colour. 21 x 30. an hour. So the Jervis Bay w e n t d o w n ; b u t all but This painting shows t h e remains o f G e r m a n aircraft This painting of a convoy at sea was used by the four or five of the merchantmen were saved. The A scene in one of England's great provincial cities brought down in the Battle of Britain. Ministry of Information as a design for a poster. Commanding Officer, Captain Edward Fogarty Fegen, after an attack by Nazi night bombers. 22 23