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History of Ash and Ridley
from Earliest Records to 1957
Compiled by Dorothy G. Meager on
behalf of Ash and Ridley Women's Institute
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The death of Eric Ravilious in Iceland in 1943 left a
vacancy among war artists and Mr T Hennell was appointed by Sir
Kenneth Clark to take his place.
In May 1944 he was given a temporary Commission as a war artist and
sent to France to be with Canadians. The pictures he produced were of
such excellence and daring that Sir Kenneth Clark subsequently gave
them a whole wall to themselves in an exhibition at the National
Gallery.
He was sent to the Channel Ports to draw the big guns there and
finally he went to the Far East where he was killed in Sourabaya in
November 1945.
His younger brother, David Barclay Hennell also died while on Active
service in the 1939-45 War.
A portrait of Thomas Hennell with specimen
of his signature
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A few illustrations of
his work as reproduced by
C. Henry Warren in an article in the Autumn
1957 issue of "The Countyman".
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