| Description
| "Cameronian tank attack, Dutch/German border, January 1945"
Number 12 of 13 watercolour paintings by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47.
Artist's notes: 'Successful Cameronian/tank attack under heavy German shell fire, January 1945'
Painting shows a green field with Cameronians and tank in the foreground and explosions in the 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.' |
