The Great War at Sea - The Opening Salvos: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
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Bob Carruthers
Bob Carruthers is an Emmy Award winning author and historian, who has written extensively on the Great War. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Bob is the author of a number of military history titles including the Amazon best seller The Wehrmacht in Russia.
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The Great War at Sea - The Opening Salvos - Bob Carruthers
An introduction to the series
The photographic equipment in use during the Great War was cumbersome and bulky and the environment of the trenches was highly lethal. As a result, the ability to take snapshots was extremely limited, making it all but impossible to capture meaningful shots of the fleeting moments of action. Furthermore the output of cameramen was subject to intense censorship; in consequence, action sequences from the front were so rare and sanitised that the popular magazines reporting the events, on both sides of the line, were forced to recruit artists and illustrators to fill the gap.
These artists were called upon to produce a highly accurate visual record of the events the camera could not capture; hand to hand fighting, trench raids, aerial dogfights, sea battles, desperate last stands, individual acts of heroism, night actions and cavalry charges. They were there to record events on the battlefield for commercial purposes and their work usually found a home in popular magazines such as The War Illustrated. The result of their efforts was a huge body of work which spanned the full gamut of styles ranging from the simplest of sketches through to highly finished oil paintings on a grand scale.
In their foremost ranks were skilled technicians such as Richard Caton-Woodville Jr. and William Barnes Wollen both of whom can stand comparison with the great artists of any age. Many of these artists including, of course, Richard Caton-Woodville Jr. had served in the military. They were amazingly talented and their work is of superb quality. They also had the eye for detail in terms of uniform, equipment and weapons which brings added authenticity to their work. They were also able to conjure up for the viewer an impression of the genuine stresses and strains of combat from the soldier’s point of view.
The Second Battle of Ypres by Barnes Wollen
The canon of works by these two great artists alone includes such masterpieces as Barnes Wollen’s Landrecies, 25 August 1914, The Defeat of the Prussian Guard, Ypres, 1914, The Canadians at Ypres and The London Territorials at Poziers. Richard Caton-Woodville Jr.’s works include The Piper of Loos, The Battle of the Somme, The 2nd Batt. Manchester Regiment taking Six Guns at dawn near St. Quentin, The Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons, The Charge of the 9th Lancers at Moncel, 7 September 1914, and the magnificent Halloween, 1914: Stand of the London Scottish on Messines Ridge.
The charge of the 9th Lancers at a German battery near Mons by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
It is a strange state of affairs but even with such luminaries to call upon, the work of the contemporary combat illustrators of the Great War, for illustrative purposes, is today almost entirely overlooked in favour of the work of the photographers.
The reason for this sad state of affairs lies in the fact that, besides the excellent work by the likes of the brilliant Barnes Wollen, there was an army of more pedestrian artists at work and many