Albert Richards

1919–1945

Albert Richards, ‘Withdrawing from the Battery after the Battery’s Guns Had Been Destroyed.’ 1944
Withdrawing from the Battery after the Battery’s Guns Had Been Destroyed. 1944
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Biography

Albert Richards (19 December 1919 – 5 March 1945) 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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