Sheltering Gallery

Princess Diana visiting Cornwall

Diana, Princess of Wales, out on a visit, possibly in the Cornwall area. She is holding a daffodils, and is sheltering from the rain under an umbrella. Date: 1980s

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Gunners sheltering during a bombardment, 1917, Matania

With our artist on the Western Front - No II., New Series. Front cover of The Sphere featuring the first of a new set of drawings done by the magazine's special artist during his latest visit to the front. The picture shows gunners taking cover under a hot bombardment and are just entering a dug-out for shelter as a shell bursts almost upon their 18 pounder gun. The drawing was completed from the notes Matania made in the field. Date: 1917

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Where Did That One Go To? by Bruce Bairnsfather

The very first cartoon published in The Bystander by Bruce Bairnsfather (later Captain) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The cartoon was drawn from experience after the cottage in which he was sheltering near St. Yvon was shelled. The picture was accompanied by the explanatory caption; I have drawn it as well as I can under somewhat difficult circumstances, and, I may say, from first-hand impressions. The picture was the first of hundreds Bairnsfather would produce for The Bystander. Many of them would later be reproduced in special portfolios called Fragments from France as well as on a vast range of merchandise. Date: 1915

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