| Description
| "German Night Patrol, 'lit up' December 1944" (Painting caption)
Number 10 of 13 watercolour paintings by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47.
Artist's description 'German patrol 'lit up' in front of 17 platoon position on German/Dutch border, December 1944'
Painting is a night scene showing soldiers in the foreground in an area with trees looking towards a lit up field with silhouettes of figures.
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.' |
