FV432 with Cymbeline radar (for setting a bearing for all the regiment's guns), AE Bty, Sanski Most, 1996
Blue and grey wash over pencil drawing by Signaller J H L (Hugh) Beattie, Inns of Court and City Yeomanry, Implementation Force (IFOR), Bosnia, 1996.
The artist, Hugh Beattie, says that the army runs through his work. Four generations of his family have served in the Territorial Army. He served with the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry while still at art college and painted while on deployment in Bosnia in 1996. Beattie is passionate about showing the glorious side of the armed forces; 'I want the paintings to keep the flame of what it is to be proud to be in the army alive.'
Implementation Force (or IFOR) was a NATO-led force sent to Bosnia in 1995-96. British soldiers were deployed under a United Nations mandate to act as peacekeepers, protecting towns and convoys of humanitarian aid. This personnel carrier is fitted with Cymbeline radar for detecting and locating the enemy.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1998-11-117-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1998-11-117-1