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| "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.' |