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A slideshow showing a number of the artistic members of The Artists Rifles. Possibly one of the more unusual regiments of the British Army. The regiment was initially formed by a group of painters, architects, sculptors, musicians, poets, writers and actors. Members took part in the Boer War and, such was the calibre of the men serving in the First World War, that it became an officer producing unit. Men who served with the regiment won more gallantry awards than from any other. It went on to become the Special Air Service (SAS).
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The Artists of The Artists Rifles
Patrick Baty
We are a nuisance to Europe,we have our systems and ourpolicyand their externalresult is terror and danger toresult is terror and danger toothers and people aretherefore justified in voting usa pest.
January 1858
Napoleon IIIFelice Orsini
There is a sound of thunder afarStorm in the south that darkens the day
Storm of battle and thunder of war!Well, if it do not roll away,
Riflemen Form
Well, if it do not roll away,Storm, Storm, Riflemen form!
Ready, be ready against the storm!Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson9th May 1859
An Early Officer Early NCO
The Artists RiflesArtists, sculptors, actors, musicians, architects in London formed
The 38th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteers
Edward Sterling Henry Wyndham Phillips
Artists Rifles Burlington House 1890s
The Artists Rifles
Lt. Col. Frederic Leighton
William Holman Hunt Dante Gabriel Rossetti John Millais Thomas Woolner
George Frederic Watts
The Artists Rifles
John Ruskin & DanteGabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones &William Morris
Ford Madox Brown
The St Johns Wood Clique 1864 or 1865Philip Hermogenes Calderon, William Frederick Yeames,
George Leslie, Henry Stacy Marks, John Evan Hodgson,George Storey and David Wilkie Wynfield
Friends at YewdenHenry Tanworth Wells 1882-85
This shows amongst others Calderon, Hodgson and YeamesThey, together with the artist himself, were members of The Artists Rifles
Gallant Rescue of Yeames from the Hever Castle Moat by Calderon & StoryDrawn by Philip Hermogenes Calderon, R.A.
The Moray Minstrels(drawn by Frederick Walker A.R.A. of The Artists Rifles)
John Millais. The Black Brunswicker
Oscar RejlanderVal Prinsep
David Wilkie Wynfield Camille Silvy
Julia MargaretCameron
William BurgesHorace Jones
Lt. Col. Robert Edis
Frederick Pepys Cockerell
Architects
George Devey
Henry Tanworth Wells. Volunteers at the Firing Point
Charles Keene 1860s
1899
The Royal Academy
Presidents (PRA) x 5Academicians (RA) x 41Associates (ARA) x 8
Frederic Leighton
Presidents of theRoyal Academy
Frederic Leighton
John MillaisEdward Poynter
Aston Webb Frank Dicksee
South Africa 1902
Active ServiceSecond Boer War
1900-1902
Artists C.I.V.(City Imperial Volunteers)
detachment for SouthAfrica 1900
South Africa 1902
Col. May
1st BattalionBailleul
(later moved to St Omer)
Col. May
Col. Horsley
2nd Battalion (ex 3rd Bn)Hare Hall
2nd Battalion supplied 1st Battalion and was merged with them
3rd Battalion became the 2nd Battalion and 15 Officer CadetBattalion (OCB)
Lt Col. Shirley
John Nash Over the Top
The painting commemorates the 1st Artists Rifles involvement in an attack on themorning of 30th December 1917, at Welsh Ridge, near Marcoing (SW of Cambrai)
Designed by Alfred Leete
1 2 3 4
Hare Hall Camp 1915
1) Sidney Strube (cartoonist) 3) Thomas Sterndale Bennett (composer)2) Alfred Leete (graphic artist) 4) Fred Buchanan (cartoonist)
1916
Gerald Ackermann, James Thorpe, Adrian Stokes and Edward Handley-Read
Gerald Ackermann
James Thorpe Edward Handley-Read
Gerald Ackermann
Royal Artillery Memorial
Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger
x8
AWARDS
x822 x6 x564
VC MC DCM MiD
x52
x4
x23
x15 x14
x15
DSO
DSC
DFC
AFC
MM
MSM
Casualties
Of 15,022 on Muster Roll6,071 KIA, Wounded,Missing, POW (40%)
Michael Goodliffe Peter Hicks
Some WWII Members
Desmond Llewellyn Howard Marion Crawford
Post-war Royal Academy Guard21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists)
NB Mars & Minerva cap badge
1950s Artists Rifles
NB Mars & Minerva badge now on sleeve
Ranulph Fiennes North Face of the Eiger 2007