Albert Richards

1919 — 1945

World War II artist (1919-1945)

Albert Richards was a British war artist. Born in 1919 to a World War I veteran, he enlisted as a sapper in 1940. He later served in the British Army during World War II, both as a paratrooper and as a war artist. He was the youngest of the three British official war artists killed during the conflict.

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Inglesham Church and Rectory

Royal Engineers' Dump

The Minute Halt

Escape from the Circus

Anti-Tank Ditch

The Process of Time

The Seven Legends: Self Portrait

Sappers Erecting Pickets in the Snow

Seacombe Ferry in Wartime

A Covering for a Gun Site

A Searchlight Battery

A Searchlight Battery

Building a Hutted Camp in Essex

Parachute Jump near Tatton Park

Take-off and Landing Field

The Industrial Battle: Tanks Ready for Shipment Overseas

'Kilkenny's Circus': Parachute Training School Paratroops Undergoing Synthetic Training

Airborne Royal Army Service Corps Supply Dropping

Breaking up the Attack, Holland: 25-Pounders of the 15th (Scottish) Division Firing towards Meijel

Exercise 'Mush': Gliders Land on a 'Captured' Airfield and Paratroops Surround the Field, Waiting for the Unloading of the Gliders

Germany: The Siegfried Line between Heerlen and Aachen

Holland, Cold Holland

Holland: Infantry of the 15th (Scottish) Division Taking Over from Hard-Pressed American Troops during a German Counterattack on the Village of Meijel

Holland: The Flooded Maas

Loading Containers on a Dakota Aircraft

The Advance, France: Burnt Out German Petrol Tankers

The Beach Head, France: The Search for Rubble; the Wear and Tear on the Roads Resulted in a Constant Search for Materials for Repair, Crushing Iron Ore in the Area of the Colombelles Factory near Caen

The Beginning of the Advance, France: German Bridge Demolition

The Break through, France: 'Marmalade Bridge', A Railway Bridge Crossing the River Seine at Rouen

The Drop

View of Le Havre