01 Work, The Art of War, Leslie Cole's Scene in a Regimental Aid Post, with footnotes

Leslie Cole (1910–1976)

Scene in a Regimental Aid Post: In a Filthy Cellar at Sallenelle, France, after an Action, c. 1944

Oil on canvas

H 66.6 x W 82.5 cm

Imperial War Museum London

Interior of a cellar being used as a dressing station with wounded lying on stretchers attended by an orderly. A doctor examines another soldier upper background.

A Regimental Aid Post was the first post in the medical chain during the two world wars. They were often set up in buildings and cellars close to the fighting. Casualties would be given basic treatment before being sent further back for more thorough care. This scene was witnessed by the official war artist Leslie Cole as fighting continued in Normandy following the D-Day landings. More on this painting

Leslie Cole (1910–1976) was a painter and teacher, studied at Swindon School of Art with Harold Dearden, 1927–32; at Birmingham College of Art, 1932–3, with Harold Holden; then Royal College of Art, 1934–7, with Malcolm Osborne and Ernest Tristram. Exhibited RA, RP and widely abroad. Cole was a notable war artist, working for the Ministry of Information in Malta, then for the Admiralty and War Office. For some time he taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Imperial War Museum and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, hold his work, which is reproduced widely in anthologies of pictures by war artists. In 1985–6 the War Museum staged an exhibition of Cole’s World War II pictures called To the Front Line. Lived in London. More on Leslie Cole

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