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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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Operation Overlord by David Rowlands. 9th (Irish) Field Battery firing on the Run-in-shoot to Queen Beach. They were the first rounds fired at the Normandy Coast, D-Day 6th June, 1944. Queen Beach, one of the 4 sectors of Sword Beach, |
Dhofar Incident by David Rowlands. Lance Corporal M K Townsend, gallant action in the Western Dhofar on 6th January, 1975, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for courage in the very highest traditions of the Service. Mel Townsend, of the Royal Corps of Signals. |
Crossing the North Rumaylah Bridge, Iraq. by David Rowlands. 25th-26th March 2003. 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment Battle Group. Operation TELIC. |
Lance-Corporal Harry Nichols, 3rd battalion Grenadier Guards, winning the Victoria Cross at the River Escaut, 21st May 1940 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Operation Goodwood, Caen, Normandy, 18th-19th July, 1944 by David Rowlands. The Allied breakthrough into the Normandy plain, against heavy German opposition. |
19th Regiment Artillery (The Highland Gunners) by David Rowlands. Shown on exercise with 24 Airmobile Brigade. |
Patrol in Az Zubayr, Iraq by David Rowlands. 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment. Operation TELIC, April 2003. |
The 33rd (1st Yorkshire, West Riding ) Regiment at the Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
19th Regiment Royal Artillery - BRITARTYBAT by David Rowlands. Operation Pegasus and Deliberate Force, Bosnia Hercegovina, June - December 1995. |
The 20th Foot at the Battle of Inkerman, 5th November 1854 by David Rowlands. The battle of Inkerman, during the Crimean War, British and French victory over the Russian Empire. |
Kicking in the Door by David Rowlands. Royal Engineers providing Close Support during the initial ground offensive into Iraq, 21st March 2003. |
Scammell Tractor, Towing a Valentine Tank, North Africa, 1943 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
M109 Howitzers of 127 (Dragon) Field Battery Royal Artillery by David Rowlands. Coming into action in Iraq, February 1991. |
Corporal C.J.G. Comber MC by David Rowlands. Corporal C.J.G. (Fred) Comber MC and crew of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in action on Bridge 4 over the Shatt al Basra waterway, Iraq, 24th March 2003. |
Combat Outpost by David Rowlands. 16 Air Assault Brigade deployed on Operation HERRICK, Afghanistan, from March to October 2006. The establishment of Combat Outposts and District Centres within Helmand Province by the 3 PARA Battlegroup was a key element of the operation. Throughout the deployment, the soldiers in these remote and austere locations were involved in some of the most intense fighting for a generation. This scene of the Combat Outpost in Now Zad depicts one of the Rear Link Detachments of 216 Parachute Signal Squadron which established and maintained vital communication links to both the Battlegroup and Brigade Headquarters from all of the isolated outposts. |
The Lone Piper by David Rowlands. A lone Jacobite piper plays a last farewell to fallen comrades. |
The 33rd (Duke of Wellingtons) Regiment storming the Great Redoubt at the Battle of Alma, 20th September 1854 by David Rowlands. 20 September 1854: The first battle of the Crimean War took place when the British and French attacked the Russians who held a formidable position on the steep slope above the River Alma. The 33rd was the centre regiment of the 1st Brigade, which was ordered to advance across the river and into the direction of the 'Great Redoubt', an entrenched position which the Russians had dug to form a protective earth bank. This position held as many as 16 battalions and 14 heavy guns. Marching steadily uphill, under artillery and musket fire, the 7th, 23rd and 33rd Regiments, despite losing their line formation, reached their objective and leapt into the Great Redoubt cheering as they did so. The Russian infantry were formed in a deep mass, and the two sides blazed away at each other at short range. The British carried the position most gallantly, and after a fierce struggle drove the Russians out. Three officers in succession had been shot while carrying the Colours of the 33rd. Captain Wallis described how, as the Russian gunners furiously struggled to withdraw their guns, a private of the 33rd spotted one being limbered up. Two horses were already attached, but he managed to seize the gun and bring it away. Sir George Brown, commanding the Light Division , had seen his action and ordered Colonel Blake to promote him to sergeant for his gallant conduct. The Light Division had been so mauled and disordered that a Russian counter-attack drove it back from the Great Redoubt, but the Guards and the Highland Brigade coming up at last drove the enemy from the battlefield. The 33rd suffered more casualties than any other British regiment engaged. Colonel Blake's horse was wounded in three places. |
The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders by David Rowlands. 1st Battalion in action at Escaut Canal, Belgium, May 1940 |
10th Regiment Royal Corps of Transport Group, Iraq 27th Feb 1991 by David Rowlands. No text for this item |
Operation AGRICOLA by David Rowlands. 4th Regiment Royal Artillery Offensive Support Group. Entry into Kosovo, 12th June 1999. |
Battle of the Hook, Korea by David Rowlands. Depicting the 1st Battalion the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and a Centurion Mk 3 tank during The Korean war at the Battle of the Hook. |
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