DCFA - First World War - Verpilleux - Captain EMILE ANTOINE VERPILLEUX, Royal Air Force (1888-1964)

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"NOON" - Here is the Battery Commander's Post during a shoot. One's attention is held by the figure of the operator. Normally, he is a young and cheeky Cockney lad, but here one feels the responsibility thrown on his shoulders and how well he "stands up to it." He has the unmistakeable Wireless look, recognisable to all who have seen him in these circumstances, oblivious to all, save the machine and its signals. The Battery Commander, calm and calculating, is making his corrections on the observations received from the aeroplane, and the Subaltern is passing on the Battery Commander's correction to the Gunners. The dug-out in this case is apparently an old cellar, and one recognises in it the local colour familiar to all.

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Artist:
Captain EMILE ANTOINE VERPILLEUX, Royal Air Force (1888-1964)

Ref: 4031
Medium: Photogravure Coloured Print
Size: 8.75in x 13.25in - 21.7 x 33.7 cm.
Framed: No
Status: Signed in Ink
Provenance: The three pictures "Morning" (4030), "Noon" (4031) and "Evening" (4032) hung together form a tryptic, showing the round of a Wireless Day. The relentless routine work at the aerodrome - the ritual work at the dug-out - and the share of realities at the batteries.
Price: £125.00 - SOLD

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