Stella Bowen: Brigadier George Langley
- Periods:
- To England
- An artist's journey
- Inner worlds
- The return to England
- The war years
Period: The war years
George Langley (1891–1971) was a commissioner for the Red Cross in Britain, assisting in the recovery of prisoners of war of the Germans. In the First World War, Langley enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and fought at Gallipoli until the evacuation. He later served with the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Light Horse, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
After the war Langley returned to teaching until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was made commanding officer of the 38th Battalion of the Australian Military Force. He served with the Australian Red Cross Field Force as commissioner in England and the Middle East from 1944 to 1946. After Langley’s death, his history of the Imperial Camel Corps, Sand, sweat and camels, was completed by his wife.
Paintings
- Julia
- The house opposite
- Flight from reason
- Embankment gardens
- Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin
- Bomber crew
- Bombing up a Lancaster for Wing Commander Douglas
- Remains of a flying bomb
- Group Captain Hughie Edwards
- D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
- Flying Officer Frederick Syme, Sunderland captain
- Pilot Officer Ronald Warfield
- A Sunderland crew comes ashore at Pembroke Dock (F. Syme, Ron Warfield, Ron Tyson, Eric Genders, Charlie Martin, Spud Murphy, Bob Meade, Merv Pike, Jock Beattie, Curly Rowland and John Bishop)
- At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
- RAAF airmen at Mongewell Park Medical Rehabilitation Unit
- Private, Gowrie House
- Repatriated prisoner of war is processed
- Brigadier George Langley
- Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
- Theaden in Kensington
- [Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]