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Major JOHN EMPSON TINDALL, MC, b.1885

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John Empson Tindall joined the Royal Engineers as a Lieutenant and rose to the rank of Captain in the 1st Home Counties Field Company, Royal Engineers (later the 490th Field Company, Royal Engineers), 8th Division, BEF and then became Major commanding the 505th (Wessex) Field Company, 57th Division, BEF.

This wonderful collection of watercolours and drawings by Major John Empson Tindall traces a remarkable pictorial record of his time in the Army.

It begins with a self-portrait of the artist in dress uniform at Chatham in 1906. There are views from his billets in Eynsham,Oxfordshire; The Long Valley at Caesar’s Camp, Aldershot; Racquinghem outside St. Omer in December 1914; Fleurbaix in 1915; Neuve Chapelle in March 1915; Sailly-sur-la-Lys in June 1915; Bridoux which was the Engineers’ refuge during the Battle of Loos in September 1915; Yzeux in April 1916; Armentieres in September 1917; Fort Rompu in March 1918. There is also a watercolour entitled “The End of the Day” - St. John’s Hospital, Canterbury, dated 11th July 1921. There are paintings and drawings showing life in the trenches, villages, interiors and exteriors of farms and churches, wiring parties and some scenes of destruction.

Tindall became a successful architect and aquatinter and studied both in London and on the Continent. He had an aquatint accepted at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1924.

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