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Name/Title Watercolour painting
Primary Maker Tuck, Fred
Measurements H 29.5 W 38.7cm (H 11 5/8" W 1' 3 1/4")
Media/Materials watercolour on paper
Description "52 Mountain Division with tanks on the offensive inside Germany, January 1945" (Caption on painting)
Number 11 of 13 watercolour paintings by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47
Artist's notes: '52 Division with tank support in Roer offensive, by passing German held high ground, January 1945'
Painting shows soldiers on the right foreground pointing weapons towards 2 surrendering soldiers on the left. Tanks and explosions in background.
Reason for watercolours given by artist:
'The training, action and hospital experience remained, most vivid and in some respects of great use in later life.
In 1987 and 1992 on motoring holidays I visited Baarland and talked to local people who remembered the attack and the Scottish soldiers.
With the approaching 50th VE Anniversary, I decided to do a series of watercolour sketches from memory, and completed in 1994.
Aim was to be factual and to underplay blood and thunder. It is of course a personal viewpoint of a tiny area of the infantry war in NW Europe.'
Theme Art, Design and Textiles --Scottish Art to 1960 --Scottish Drawings and Paintings to 1960 --Scottish landscapes to 1960
Our History --South Lanarkshire History --South Lanarkshire at War --World War Two --Regiments and Volunteers World War Two --Cameronian (Scottish Rifles) World War Two
Signature/Marks 52 Mountain Division with tanks on the offensive inside Germany, January 1945
Fred Tuck
Accession No 2006.404.11

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