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This digital document, covering the life and work of Cecil Frank Powell, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1313 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Neville Duke, David Fulton, Cecil Frank Powell, Guy Hands, Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, Clive Loader, Humphrey Burton, Bernard Hailstone, Timothy Allen, Martin Purdy, Donald Hodge, Richard Dixon, Ronald Ralph Williams. Excerpt:Bernard Hailstone Bernard Hailstone (1910 1987) was an English painter . Hailstone belongs to the group of early 20th-century artists whose best-known work was done during the Second World War . After education at the Judd School , Tonbridge , Hailstone attended Goldsmith's college School of Art, under Clive Gardiner, then the Royal Academy Schools, with James Bateman and Walter Westley Russell . At the beginning of the War, he felt the need to incorporate his artistic contribution to the war effort with more physical sacrifices. He therefore joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and witnessed at first hand the horrific destruction caused by bombing during the Blitz. He recorded some of these scenes in his paintings. In 1941 the War Artists Advisory Committee commissioned Hailstone to paint civil defence subjects. He supplemented these works with portraits of his colleagues in the fire services and other war workers. His portrait of W. M. Ladbrooke, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy (National Maritime Museum, London), painted following a visit to the Merchant Navy convalescent home in Limpsfield , Surrey around 1943, embodies sympathy for the heroic yet vulnerable sailor. Following his release from the fire services, Hailstone moved to Hull , where he continued to record the effects of the war from a civilian perspective. One such work is his Big Ben the Bargee , showing a bargeman and his wife and completed in June 1943 (National Maritime Museum, London). Throughout the rest of the war Hailstone travelled around the Mediterranean and North Africa , recording the ac... ... Read more