sketch drawing, Falling in the Guard
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-3357
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
Great Britain - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Hughes , C.M., O.B.C., Captain Edward John
- Date Made 1943/04/14
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1943/04/14
- Latest 1943/04/14
- Medium carbon pencil
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Unit 1ST ARMOURED CAR REGIMENT (ROYAL CANADIAN DRAGOONS)
- Measurements Height 30.4 cm, Width 41.0 cm
- Caption Hughes, E.J. (b. 1913)
- Additional Information In 1939 Hughes enlisted in the RCA as a gunner. Appointed a war artist in 1940, he was posted to Petawawa, Ontario, and in 1942, to England. From 1943 to 1946, as an official war artist, he painted in Kiska, Alaska, and in Ottawa. His precisely executed, post-war landscape paintings of British Columbia are well-known.