| Description
| "Clean up operation as Scottish units move out, November 1944" (Caption on painting)
Number 9 of 13 watercolour paintings by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47.
Artist's description: '156 Brigade move off Walcheren, as Dutch clean up'
Painting shows line of soldiers to the right with row of damaged houses and trees on the left.
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.' |
