Harold Hailstone (1897-1982)

Transport Command Dakotas at Sharjah, 1945

watercolour on paper of two Dakota planes at a military airfield with soldiers and locals in attendance, framed

signed and dated Hailstone 45

37.5 x 27cm (image)

Catalogue notes

Harold Hailstone served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and on returning took up a career as a cartoonist and illustrator. He returned to military service during the Second World War, joining the Royal Air Force from 1938 to 1945, and he was appointed a war artist in 1944. A companion painting to this is held in the Imperial War Museum collection.

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