Shared Experience: Airmen In A Village Pub Yorkshire

Art and War

• Introduction
• Battle
• Work
• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
• Home
• Artists

Airmen are depicted off-duty in a British country bar. The airman on the left, resting his head on his arm, is said to be Brittain. The artist, a bomb aimer himself, identified with his comrades’ need for relaxation as an antidote to the relentless, stressful, and often distressing experience of service in Bomber Command.

Paintings

• Telephone exchange
  Harold Freedman
• Mess Deck
  Jack Nichols
• Moresby picture show
  Charles Bush
• Airmen In A Village Pub Yorkshire
  Miller Brittain
• Canadian Airmen in a Park
  Goodridge Roberts
• You'll Get Used To It
  T.R. MacDonald
• Waterloo Station
  Colin Colahan
• The fairground, Sydney 1944
  Herbert Badham
• Soldiers Bathing
  Will Ogilvie
• V.E. Day Street Party, 1945
  Edwin La Dell