| Description
| "Cameronians in house fighting near Heinsburg January 1945" (Caption on painting)
Number 13 of 13 watercolour paintings by Fred Tuck, D Company, 6th battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1943-47
Artist's note: 'Street mopping up in smashed village near Heinsburg...wounded a day later, 22 January 1945'
Painting shows three soldiers with equipment in right foreground with rubble and burnt out buildings behind.
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.' |
