| Description
| "Cameronians 'D' Coy Winter training in Scotland late 1943"
Number 2 of 13 watercolours by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47.From artists notes "Ski company on the move" 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.' |
