Shared Experience: Face Burns, Sgt James F. Gourley, RAF, 536215
Charles Goldhamer
Face Burns, Sgt James F. Gourley, RAF, 536215
charcoal watercolour on paper
46.7 x 42.1cm
CWM 19710261-3890
Gourlay returned to operational flying after extensive care at the advanced plastic surgery unit at East Grinstead, Sussex. He urged his crew to wear goggles, helmet, and gloves at all times while airborne. “If you want to know why, come into my office and I’ll show you,” he would say, thinking of photographs taken while he was being treated.
Paintings
- Bomber crew
Stella Bowen - Battlefield burial of three NCOs
Ivor Hele - Tragic Landscape
Alex Colville - Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan
Donald Friend - A Child Bomb-Victim Receiving Penecillin Treatment
Ethel Gabain - Natives carrying wounded
Sali Herman - A Saline Bath, RAF Hospital
A.R. Thomson - Face Burns, Sgt James F. Gourley, RAF, 536215
Charles Goldhamer - Bombed Out
Will Ogilvie - Wrecked Lodestar
Eric Thake - Bomber crash
Frank Hinder