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| David Rowlands |
David Rowlands has had a passion for sketching British soldiers and their equipment ever since he was a boy. After completing his studies at Manchester University in 1977, he joined the staff of the Reading Room at the National Army Museum, working full-time as a professional artist. Keenly interested in the history of British campaigns, uniforms and tactics, he has painted many historical battle scenes with great attention to accuracy and detail. This has resulted in widespread recognition of his work with the result that he has been commissioned to record the activities of many Regiments in the present day. These commissions have taken him frequently to Northern Ireland, as well as Germany, Cyprus, Hong Kong and Gibraltar. In 1991 David Rowlands was the only artist invited by the Army to visit the Gulf. Attached to a Warrior crew of 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, he observed the work of the various Arms at first hand, enabling him to complete many accurate paintings for Regiments and Corps engaged in the conflict. Early in 1993 he was the first war artist to visit Bosnia and record the British troops in Operation GRAPPLE 1. Invited by Headquarters National Support Element, he travelled extensively on convoys and sketched the operations from Split to Vitez and Travnik. Several paintings have been commissioned by the participating units, including one of 7 Armoured Workshop REME at Gornji Vakul. Over the past ten years David has been sent regularly to Iraq and Afghanistan for projects involving many of the British and Nato forces. He has probably spent as much time overseas gathering information for these projects as he has spent in the UK. He is certainly one of the major military artists of the past 20 years. Many of these fine paintings are now available as signed edtion art prints and canvases.
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Cyclops Squadron by David Rowlands. Cyclops Squadron of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment raiding into Az Zubayr, Iraq, at midday on 26th March 2003. |
Headquarters 4th Armoured Brigade on Objective Copper South, Iraq 27th February 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Heavy Mortars of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps in action at Mount Igman, Bosnia, August 1995. by David Rowlands. August 1995: Eerste Mortier Compagnie Korps Mariniers, Operatie PEGASUS. Mount Igman, near Sarajevo. |
Though Time Goes By... by David Rowlands. The 50th Anniversary of the SAS 1947-1997. |
The Battle of Beda Fomm by David Rowlands. Cruiser Tanks of 1st Royal Tank Regiment at the Battle of Beda Fomm. |
The Charge of the 1st Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders by David Rowlands. 1st Battalion in action at Escaut Canal, Belgium, May 1940. |
The Madras Foot Artillery at the Assault on Chin-Kiang-Foo, 21st July 1842 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
B Squadron, 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards, Safwan, Iraq, 2003 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment by David Rowlands. The recovery of LCpl Edwards Warrior, Gonji Vakuf, Bosnia, 13th January 1993. |
Operation Mar Karadad - The Retaking of Musa Qal'eh by David Rowlands. Right Flank, 1st Battalion Scots Guards was an independent armoured infantry company attached to 52 Brigade during Operation HERRICK 7. The company was equipped with Warrior armoured fighting vehicles. The successful retaking of the town of Musa Qal'eh from the Taliban in December 2007 was code-named Operation MAR KARADAD. The scene shows a morning raid to clear the area of Taliban, when Right Flank was working under the Household Cavalry Regiment Battlegroup. |
The Rocket Brigade at the Battle of Leipzig, 16th-18th October 1813 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
The Battle of Minden, 1st August 1759 by David Rowlands. . Captain F Macbeans Company, 1st Battalion Royal Artillery in action on the right of the British line, firing its 12 pounder guns against French Cavalry and Infantry. By permission of David Rowlands. Battle of Minden 1st August 1759. Major battle of the Seven years war. After the French victory in April at Bergen, The French Army 60,000 strong under the command of Duc Louis de Contades marched northwards towards Hanover. To block this French Advance the Prussian Army under Field Marshall The Duke of Brunswick decided to hold the line at Minden. The Duke of Brunswick could only raise a force of 45,000 men including a British Contingent under Lord George Sackville of 6 regiments, a detachment of cavalry and some artillery. The French opened the battle attacking, the British Infantry regiments probably due to a misunderstanding, advanced and they were followed by the Hanoverian Infantry. They attacked the French cavalry. The Infantry advanced only stopping to let off a volleys of fire. This unconventional use of Infantry against cavalry, the French force confused and suffering losses broke. The victory was in Ferdinands grasp, he ordered his cavalry forward but the British general Sackville refused to send his cavalry after the French. For this action he was later court-martialled by King George II and cashiered from the army. The French were able to withdraw in order, but their losses had been 7,000 men and 43 artillery guns. The British and Hanoverian losses were less than 3,000 with 1500 of these casualties inflicted on the British Infantry. This battle ended all French hopes of capturing Hanover. British Regiments at Minden. 12th of Foot. (Suffolk Regiment) 20th Foot. (Lancashire Fusiliers ) 23rd of Foot. (Welch Fusiliers), 25th of Foot, (Kings own Scottish Borderers), 37th of Foot. (Royal Hampshire Regiment), 51st Foot (Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry) |
The Raid on St Nazaire 28th March 1942 by David Rowlands. In early 1942 Britains very survival was threatened by the success of German U-Boat raids on shipping in the Atlantic. their mighty battleship Tirpitz posed even a greater threat. Operation Chariot a sea -borne commando attack was launched on a huge Normandie dock in the heavily defended St Naziare harbour. Destruction of the dock would deprive the Germans of the only repair site on the Atlantic coast big enough for the 50,000 ton Tirpitz. Accompanied by 18 small craft of Coastal Forces. HMS Campbletown boldly steamed up three Loire estuary under intense German fire, and struck the caisson of the dry dock at 0134 hrs. The Commandos rapidly disembarked from the bows and set about destroying the dock installations, Of the 622 who set out from Falmouth 169 died, 200 became prisoners and only 242 returned home. Five Victoria Crosses, four DSOs, seventeen DSCs and eleven MCs were awarded in the daring and brilliantly successful raid. |
1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers, Southern Iraq, 27th February 1991 by David Rowlands. (AP) No text for this item |
Thrown Tracks by David Rowlands. Between 27th March and 4th April 2003, C Squadron The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was attached to 40 Commando Royal Marines on the Al Faw peninsula. |
The Bloody Eleventh by David Rowlands. The 11th (North Devon) Regiment at the Battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812. |
The Liberation of Basra by the 7th Armoured Brigade, 6th April 2003 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Headquarters Squadron, 1st The Queens Dragoon Guards, Umm Qasr, Iraq, 2003 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
105mm Light Guns coming into action at Malopolje, Mount Igman, August 1995. 19th Regiment Royal Artillery. by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Cobra Attack by David Rowlands. AH-1 Whiskey Cobras of the US marine Corps in Action, Kuwait, February 1991. |
M109 Guns of the 40th Field Regiment Royal Artillery Approaching the Basra Road, Kuwait, 28th February 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
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