Leslie Cole

1910

British artist and teacher (1910-1976)

Leslie James Cole was a British artist and teacher. He served as a war artist from 1942 to 1946 during which time he recorded events in several theatres of war and also the aftermath of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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Portrait of an Unknown Bearded Man

Leslie Cole Museum & Art Swindon
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Royal Marine Commando and Paratrooper Stretcher-Bearers in Normandy, 1944

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1940s

10 Heavy Ack Ack, Zeebug, Malta

Leslie Cole Manchester Art Gallery
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1940s

The Interior of an Aircraft in Flight

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1941

Loading Tanks for Russia

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1942

16th US Medical Regiment: Field Dental Service Operating during an Attack

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1942

A Glider Pilot at the Controls

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1942

An American Soldier in Fatigue Dress

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1942

Dentistry during the Hour of Gas Practice

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1942

Loading Tanks for Russia II

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1942

Naval Base: Women's Royal Naval Service Sick Bay

Leslie Cole Southampton City Art Gallery
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1942

Night Scene in a Watch Office

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1942

The Kitchen of the First British Restaurant in Hull

Leslie Cole Ferens Art Gallery
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1942

The Shaping of the Keel Plate of a Corvette

Leslie Cole Laing Art Gallery
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1943

Admiral C. H. J. Harcourt's Flagship HMS 'Newfoundland' in the Attack on Pantellaria

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1943

Air Transport Auxiliary

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1943

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park (1892–1975), KBE, CB, MC, DFC, Air Officer Commanding Malta in His Plane

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1943

Brigadier Ivan de la Bere, OBE, in Charge of Troops during the Siege of Malta

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1943

Diffone Workers Mending the Roof of the Officers' Mess, Floriana

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1943

Excavating Tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners

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1943

Ground Operational Exercise

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1943

Landing Craft Mechanized

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1943

Major General G. C. Kemp, CB, MC

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1943

Major General W. H. Oxley, CBE, MC, General Officer Commanding Troops in Malta

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1943

Malta Convoy: Basutos Deal with the Overflow Mail on the Causeway, the Palace, Valletta

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1943

Malta, the Hypogeum: People of Paola Sheltering during a Raid

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1943

Malta: A Few People Sleep out among the Debris

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1943

Malta: Fighters Take-Off from Luca's Bombed Runway

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1943

Malta: Gunners Resting Between Alerts at a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Post

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1943

Malta: No Time to Lose, Soldier Dockers Unloading a Convoy during a Raid

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1943

Malta: Preparing for the Night in the Crypt of St Augustine's, Valletta

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1943

Malta: Shelterers Praying during a Raid

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1943

Malta: The Harbour Barrage from the Upper Barracca

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1943

Maltese Fishermen Mending Bombed Dghaisas and Other Boats

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1943

Rear-Admiral Sir Kenneth Alexander Ingleby-Mackenzie, 1892-1961

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1943

Star Shells over Lampedusa during a Night Bombardment

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1943

Stirlings in Production

Leslie Cole The Wilson
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1943

Wing Commander John Marlow Thompson (1914–1994), DSO, DFC and Bar, and Belgian MC

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1944

Battle of London: Royal Marine Anti-Aircraft Gunners Bring down a Flying Bomb

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1944

Bechuanaland Boys Cleaning Anti-Aircraft Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily

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1944

Maltese Women

Leslie Cole Ferens Art Gallery
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1944

Royal Marine gunners in a cornfield

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1944

Scene in a Regimental Aid Post: In a Filthy Cellar at Sallenelle, France, after an Action

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1945

14th Army: Men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment Form the Spearhead of a Patrol, Cutting through the Jungle on the Toungoo-Manchi Road

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1945

A Greek Refugee Family from Samos at Moses Wells Encampment, Arabia, with Red Cross Workers

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1945

Belsen Camp: The Compound for Women

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1945

British Snipers on the Island of Ubbea near Khakio, 10th Infantry Brigade

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1945

British Women and Children Interned in a Japanese Prison Camp, Syme Road, Singapore

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1945

Burma, 14th Army: The Battle of the Sittang Bend with Men of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment Making an Armed Patrol

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1945

Burmese Guerillas in Action

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1945

Captain L. E. George, MC

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1945

Commandant Marjorie F. Wagstaffe, CBE, Deputy Director, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Middle East Forces

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1945

Company Quartermaster, Sergeant Van Omoheusen of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, Ceylon

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1945

Greece, an Orphanage: Curing Scabies with Anachryl

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1945

Havildar Gurbakhsh Singh, IDSM

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1945

Mother Mourning the Death of a Village Priest

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1945

One of the Death Pits, Belsen: SS Guards Collecting Bodies

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1945

Orderly on His Rounds in X Ward, Changi Gaol, Singapore, with Prisoners of War Suffering from Starvation and Beriberi

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1945

Sick Women and the Hooded Men of Belsen

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1945

Subedar-Major Musank Khan

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1945

The Greek Civil War: Relatives Mourn Their Dead at Peristeres

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1946

Borneo: Officers' Mess, 3/8 Gurkha Regiment

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1946

Burma, the Guerilla Headquarters: Sergeant Brierley (Ex-Maquis) with Burmese Members of Reindeer Force 136

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1946

Mary (Young Girl with a Doll)

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1946

Scorched Earth: Devastated Rubber Plantations

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1946

Singapore: Limbless Officers and Men Checking out from Changi Gaol

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1946

Singapore: The Cookhouse, Changi Gaol, British Prisoners of War Prepare Their Main Meal of Rice

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1946

Singapore: The Remains of One of the Big Defence Guns

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1946

Subedar-Major of the 3/8 Gurkhas

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1950s

Boy with a Bird

Leslie Cole Museum & Art Swindon
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1952

Seated Figure (the artist's wife, Brenda Cole, previously known as Barbara Harris)

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