With thanks to Catherine Avak for finding this artist for us
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"Early Morning, Suvla Bay, Oct. 1915" |
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The Citation for Leslie's medal |
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With thanks to Catherine Avak for finding this artist for us
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"Early Morning, Suvla Bay, Oct. 1915" |
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The Citation for Leslie's medal |
Herbert was studying at the University of Leeds when the First World War began. He was commissioned in January 1915 into the Green Howards Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. His final rank was Captain.
During the First World War, Herbert served in France. He also founded the magazine “Arts & Letters” with Frank Rutter.
Knighted in 1953 "for services to literature", Herbert died on 12th June 1968
On 11th November 1985, Herbert Read was among 16 of the Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey in London, UK. The area is known as Poet's Corner.
The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under various titles until it was amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), all Yorkshire-based regiments in the King's Division, to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) on 6 June 2006.
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Green Howards Cap Badge |
Charles first arrived in the United States in New York City on 21st December 1909. His friend and fellow artist Charles Dana Gibson met him as he arrived and helped establish Hoffbauer in the New York art community. On 8th August 1914, he returned to France and, although he had met his military service obligations, he was a Reservist in the French Army. He enlised in the 274th Infantry Regiment at a Private.
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German Prisoners of War, Somme, 1916 by Charles Hoffbauer |
While in the trenches, Charles wrote an article for Leslie’s "Illustrated Weekly", entitled “Horrors of Trench Life in France.” He served as an official war artist and also worked as a liaison officer between the Camouflage Section of his unit and the American camouflage unit. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery during the Battle of the Somme.
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15 February 1917 - J. M. Flagg" I Want You" cover. |
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922. It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie.
Throughout its existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports — first with wood engravings and daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography — of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish–American War and the First World War.
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Self portrait 1920 |
Edward served as a volunteer ambulance driver in France with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, American Red Cross, during The First World War. Edward was imprisoned for three months in a French detention centre, having been mistaken as a spy. He went on to serve in the United States Army (1918-1919), then studied art in Paris (1920-1924).
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Dark coloured landscape e.e. cummings |
With thanks to Josie Holford for the discovery of this artist
Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire UK, on 19th June 1881, Christopher’s parents were Wyndham Hope Hughes, an artist, and his wife, Eveline Constance Marie Hughes, nee Pinhorne. Christopher had a sister – Mary H. Hughes - born in 1878. The children’s mother died in 1885.Christopher was taught painting by his father, Wyndham Hughes, who was an expert in stained glass and ecclesiastical art. In 1904, Christopher married Edith Hereford Wynne Willson in Witney, Oxfordshire.
During the First World War, Christopher served as a Captain in the 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 while serving as a Temporary Captain. With the rank of Major when he left the Army, Christopher served in the Officers Training Corps (OTC) at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where he taught art from the 1920s – 1940s. His final rank was Colonel.
Christopher died on 12th January 1961 in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Probate was granted to Ursula Wyndham Simeon.
Josie Holford's website is https://www.josieholford.com/sorley/
Artwork by Christopher Wyndham Hughes MC - Entrance to Sienna Cathedral
have not been able to find any WW1 artwork or a portrait of Christopher. If you can help please get in touch.
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Sketching at a Red Cross fund raiser 1918 |
In 1895 John began working for David Allen & Sons designing advertisements, which developed into a 50-year career. He also produced a large number of volumes of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
In 1900 he opened his own New Art School and School of Poster Design, in Kensington, but the school had to close at the outbreak of the First World War.
Examples of John Hassell's WW1 work:
A poster urging people to help Belgium.![]() |
A Tank in Action Now in the British Tank Museum |
Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and later in Kadıköy and Bournabat (in modern day Turkey), Arthur went on to study art at the Instituto di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy and went to America in 1889. In 1901 he married Henrietta Louise Watkins, and the couple had three children.
Forty two years old when the First World War began, as a civilian photographer Arthur travelled to the Western Front and began recording with his cine camera, as the Belgian army attempted in vain to stem the advance of the German Army.
Influential friends helped Arthur "to obtain a commission in an infantry regiment — the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry" -The 'Tykes'. Arthur served in the trenches during the period leading up to the First Battle of the Somme but before the Battle he was gassed and unfit for duty. He wrote from the front lines during this period describing trench warfare, the Somme attack and its consequences and aftermath.
Arthur recorded his WW1 eye-witness experiences in a book entitled “When the Somme Ran Red: The Experiences of an Officer of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry During the First World War.”
Arthur later created a number of paintings based on his recollections of experiences on the Somme.
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Troops Going over the Top, First World War (Battle of the Somme) |