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The Final Of The Tide: Portraits Of D-Day Veterans

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HRH Prince of Wales has commissioned twelve portraits of D-Day veterans which tin live seen inwards an exhibition called The Last of the Tide at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace until 17 June 2015.

The thought behind the exhibition is to pay tribute to those extraordinary men who played a purpose inwards the Allied Invasion of Normandy inwards June 1944.  The championship of the exhibition comes from a message to the troops.
On the eve of D-Day General Eisenhower sent a message to all troops inwards which he declared, 'The tide has turned! The gratis men of the Earth are marching together to Victory!'.
Twelve leading portrait painters were selected for the committee - 1 for each portrait. They include:
Other artists are: Clara Drummond, Peter Kuhfeld (painter of "The Last Tommy"), Jonathan Yeo and Martin Yeoman

The exhibition opened on sixth June - the 71st anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The D-Day Landings involved  some 7,700 ships as well as 12,000 aircraft  as well as began the tiresome procedure of liberatingGerman-occupied France. It was as well as soundless is the largest amphibious invasion inwards history.

Prior to this inwards 2010 HRH The Prince of Wales commissioned fifteen portraits of surviving servicemen past times alumni as well as faculty of The Royal Drawing School (previously known equally The Prince’s Drawing School), to grade the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Below yous tin come across the portraits as well as listen something of what the men were involved in.

My thank yous to the Press Office of the Royal Collection for the images yous come across inwards this post. Obviously non everybody is going to live able to larn to come across the exhibition - yet this of import serial needs highlighting - thence this post.

The portraits - the men as well as the artists


'I am delighted to innovate this exhibition of portraits of veterans of the D-Day landings as well as really much promise that all who come across it volition percentage my belief that this wonderful collection of paintings captures the spirit, resolve, warmth as well as humanity of these remarkable men. It seemed to me a tragedy that at that topographic point were no portraits of D-Day veterans, thence this collection of remarkable onetime soldiers from the regiments of which my married adult woman as well as I are Colonel or Colonel-in-Chief.'HRH The Prince of Wales 
The 12 veterans all served inwards regiments alongside which HRH The Prince of Wales as well as The Duchess of Cornwall stimulate got a formal association.

They are all shown wearing their medals win during WW2.

Thomas ‘David’ Burke (b. 1924) - Sergeant alongside Royal Signals as well as later the Cheshire Yeomanry
Artist: © James Lloyd | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Burke landed alongside Canadian forces equally a signals sergeant as well as served through French Republic as well as FRG until the Nazi surrender. He later on worked alongside the Allied Joint Signals Unit at the Nuremberg nation of war crimes tribunal, as well as became business office of the Cheshire Yeomanry after the war.
James 'Jim' Glennie (b.1925) - Private alongside the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders
Artist: © Carl Randall | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Glennie was attached to the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders for the landings on D-Day, later on advancing inland as well as taking upwardly defensive positions nearly Caen. During a German linguistic communication counter-attack he was wounded as well as taken prisoner, spending 4 months equally a prisoner of war.
Jack Griffiths (b.1921) - Pilot alongside the Glider Pilot Regiment 
Artist: © Stuart Pearson Wright | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Griffiths flew a glider containing Parachute Regiment soldiers, successfully landing on the morn of D-Day. The soldiers went on to destroy bridges over the River Orne.
Eric Johnston (b.1923) - Trooper alongside the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
Artist: © Catherine Goodman | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Johnston was a co-driver inside the Reconnaissance Troop, which landed on Gold Beach at dawn. He took business office inwards the battle of Villiers-Bocage as well as the defense forcefulness of Hill103 as well as fought alongside his Regiment throughout Normandy.
Robert Antony 'Tony' Leake (b.1925) - Corporal alongside the eighth Battalion The Parachute Regiment
Artist: © Eileen Hogan | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Dr Leake took business office inwards the volume parachute drib behind the German linguistic communication lines. He blew bridges over the River Dives as well as gear upwardly defensive positions. The Battalion was cutting off for 5 days, eventually beingness relieved past times the Highland Division.
Cecil Newton (b. 1923) - Trooper alongside the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
Artist: © Peter Kuhfeld | Photograph: © Royal Collection
On D-Day Mr Newton was a DD 'Swimming' Tank gunner, landing equally business office of the commencement moving ridge on Gold Beach. After destroying a German linguistic communication defensive position, his tank became swamped, as well as he was required to evacuate on to the beach.
Geoffrey Pattinson (b.1924) - Sergeant alongside ninth Battalion The Parachute Regiment 
Artist: © Jonathan Yeo | Photograph: © Royal Collection
Mr Pattinson was to province inside the perimeter of the Merville Battery, but, due to a faulty glider, he landed inwards Hampshire. By the eve of D-Day his platoon had managed to province inwards Normandy as well as he re-joined his unit.
Raymond ‘Tich’ Rayner (191-2015)- Sergeant alongside Oxfordshire as well as Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Artist: © Ishbel Myerscough | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Raynor was inwards glider number 4 equally business office of the performance on Pegasus Bridge. His glider had navigational issues as well as landed 7 miles away from the planned landing zone. He eventually fought his means dorsum to his unit.
Tom Renoulf (b.1925) - Private (later Lieutenant) alongside fifth Battalion Black Watch 
Artist: © Clara Drummond | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Dr Renouf landed on the tertiary solar daytime of the invasion, taking business office inwards the battle for high Blue Planet around Breville. He, similar Mr Stewart (below), was business office of the 51st Highland Division who rescued the eighth Battalion of the Parachute Regiment.
Brian Stewart (born 1922), Captain alongside the 1st Battalion, Tyneside Scottish
Artist: © Paul Benney | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Stewart was the Anti-Tank Platoon Commander alongside the Tyneside Scottish, landing on fifteen July. He helped to rescue comrades inwards the eighth Battalion of the Parachute Regiment who were cutting off for several days inwards their bid to destroy the bridges over the River Dives.
Patrick 'Pat' Turner (b.1922) - Private alongside the Oxfordshire as well as Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Artist: © Antony Williams | Photograph: © Royal Collection Trust
Mr Turner was business office of the performance on Pegasus Bridge, landing inwards glider number three, inside fifty metres of the bridge. He was instrumental inwards the assail as well as the securing of the Benouville Bridge as well as a road over the Caen Canal.
Laurence ‘Laurie’ Weeden (b.1922) - Pilot alongside the Glider Pilot Regiment
Artist: © Martin Yeoman | Photograph:© Royal Collection Trust
Mr Weeden flew a glider during the volume airborne performance on D-Day. He safely landed inwards Normandy, where his cargo of jeeps, explosives as well as ammunition were used past times the eighth Battalion The Parachute Regiment to blow upwardly bridges over the Dives River.
The exhibition was organised past times The Royal Drawing School. An associated publication The Last of the Tide: Portraits of D-Day Veterans, is published past times Royal Collection Trust as well as Modern Art Press, toll £5.00. It is available from The Queen's Gallery store and www.royalcollection.org.uk/shop.

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