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Presentation: Framed
SN: 2604
Oil on canvas
62-1/4 × 40-1/8 in. (158 × 102 cm)
Provenance:Andrew Leslie, Leva Gallery, 1974; private collection.
Literature: Grant M.Waters, Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950, Eastbourne Fine Art Publications, Eastbourne, 1976, vol. 2, illus. no. 70.

This painting shows an Auxiliary Fireman,  his a plastron-fronted tunic buttoning on the right side and his fireman's hatchet in a holder attached to his belt..

Tethered barrage balloons – 1,100 of which were moored at 100-yard intervals around St Paul’s – defended the city against dive-bombers, forcing them to fly higher and into the range of concentrated anti-aircraft fire.

We are grateful to Andrew Cormack FSA, Keeper of Medals, Uniforms and Visual Arts, Royal Air Force Museum London, for assistance