Remembrance Day each year is an ideal opportunity to delve into the volumes of well known, and well-regarded art from different warfare. The gender of people involved in the forefront of combat is also broader than generally depicted in much public art. Military women that are displayed are usually shown in auxiliary or domestic roles within international conflict, however the portrait of Commandant Marjorie F. Wagstaff is a rare example of the public face and responsibilities of women in battle.
The auxiliary, yet central, roles of human repair after military injury in early conflicts was carried out by legions of medical staff including Mary Seacole.
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Leslie Cole (1910–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 72.3 x W 51.4 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Mrs Laughton Mathews, CBE 1943
Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 101.9 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1878–1959), the Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE 1918
Philip Alexius de László (1869–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 86.3 x W 57.1 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Barbara Mary Rendell, BEM, Auxiliary Fire Service 1941
Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
Oil on canvas
H 101.9 x W 76.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Drivers on Duty at an Ambulance Station c.1940
Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982)
Oil on board
H 51 x W 61 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Alfred Reginald Thomson (1894–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Tunumiu Woman* 1937
Eigil Knuth (1903–1996)
Plaster
H 44 x W 22 x D 23 cm
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 55.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Aletha Harcourt, Ambulance Driver, Bushey Heath Air Raid Precautions 1942
George Harcourt (1868–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 68.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 85 x W 54.5 cm
National Trust, Mount Stewart
Serb and Muslim 1994
Peter Howson (b.1958)
Oil on canvas
H 213.5 x W 152.5 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Women's Auxiliary Air Force Drivers of 58 and 502 Squadrons, St David's, 1944 1992
D. Frower
Oil on board
H 35 x W 45 cm
Yorkshire Air Museum
Gulf Women Prepare for War 1986
Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
Oil on canvas
H 122 x W 145 cm
The Women’s Art Collection
Care of Wounded Soldiers at Cardiff Royal Infirmary during the Great War 1916
Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
Oil on canvas
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
A Women's Royal Naval Service Officer c.1940
Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 60.8 x W 51 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
In for Repairs 1942
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 127 cm
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library
C Ward, 101 British General Hospital, Louvain 1945
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (1898–1991)
Oil on canvas
H 65 x W 81 cm
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
Corporal J. M. Robins, Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1941
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 60.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1940
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 60.9 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Assistant Section Leader E. Henderson, MM, and Sergeant H. Turner, MM, Women's Auxiliary Air Service mid-20th C
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 114 x W 81 cm
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
P. Spence (active c.1900)
Pen, ink, gouache & wash on paper (?)
H 20.5 x W 37.3 cm
Wellcome Collection
Oliver Paque (W.H. Pike) (1846–1908)
Pen & pencil on paper (?)
H 27.4 x W 38.8 cm
Wellcome Collection
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 1911–1915
Arthur George Walker (1861–1939) and Fiorini Foundry and T. H. Wyatt
Bronze & red granite
H 275 cm
Convalescent Nurses Making Camouflage Nets 1941
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 45.8 x W 61 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Martin Jennings (b.1957) and Pangolin Editions (founded 1985)
Bronze, Cumbrian black slate & Portland stone
H 490 cm
Martin Jennings (b.1957) and Pangolin Editions (founded 1985)
Women's Auxiliary Air Force Store c.1940–1945
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 40.6 x W 50.8 cm
Glasgow Life Museums
The Women's Land Army and German Prisoners 1918
Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948)
Oil on panel
H 48.2 x W 57.1 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Auxiliary Fire Service Girl, City Fire Station 1940
Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 78.7 x W 66 cm
Southwark Art Collection
Princess Mary, The Princess Royal (1897–1965), Controller Commandant, WRAC 1959
Aubrey Claud Davidson-Houston (1906–1995)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
National Army Museum
Alix Baker (b.1947)
Acrylic on paper
H 38 x W 27.2 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Women's Royal Air Force Workers Drilling at Andover Aerodrome c.1917–1918
Fairlie Harmar (1876–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 71.1 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Princess Mary, The Princess Royal (1897–1965), Controller Commandant, WRAC 1949
Edward Brian Seago (1910–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 88.4 cm
National Army Museum
Women's Royal Air Force Transport 1919
Gertrude A. George (active 1919–1940)
Oil on canvas
H 38.5 x W 22.5 cm
Royal Air Force Museum
Corporal Lilian Levy, Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1943
Alfred Reginald Thomson (1894–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 54.2 x W 39.6 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 46 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Dame Katherine Furse, CBE, RRC, Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (1920) 1918
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 60.9 x W 50.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)