'Bringing up supplies at night', 1918 (c)
Watercolour by 2nd Lieutenant Richard Tennant Cooper (1885-1957), 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and Royal Engineers, 1918 (c).
Rain falls on a working party of British soldiers on the Western Front during World War One (1914-1918). The soldiers, carrying barbed wire, stanchions and sandbags, negotiate wooden duck-boards laid on muddy and waterlogged ground, with shattered trees and a ruined church in the background.
Educated in Tonbridge, Kent, Richard Tennant Cooper trained as an artist in Paris, but in 1914 he volunteered as a private in 16th (Service) Battalion (Public Schools), The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). In 1916 he was given a temporary commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was promoted temporary lieutenant in July 1918 and captain in November that year.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1994-08-70-54-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1994-08-70-54-1