Paul Nash

Paul Nash

• Born 11 May 1889
• Kensington, London, England
• Died 11 July 1946 (aged 57)
• Boscombe, Dorset, England
• Nationality British
• Education
• South-Western Polytechnic
• London County Council School of Photo-engraving and Lithography
• Slade School of Art
• Known for Painting, printmaking
• Movement Surrealism
• Spouse(s) Margaret Theodosia Odeh (m. 1914–1946, his death) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nash_(artist)

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LOTFWW

British Army, London Regiment, Service #2655

• First Name: Paul
• Surname: Nash
• Hampshire Regiment Second Lieutenant
• London Regiment Private 2655
• Archive Reference:
• WO 372/14/180031 - The National Archives in Kew,

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WW1 -

Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nash_(artist)

Paul Nash began officer training in August 1916 and was sent to the Western Front in February 1917 as a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment. He was based at St. Eloi on the Ypres Salient at a relatively quiet time and although the area did come under shelling, no major engagements took place while he was there. Whilst clearly aware of the destruction that had taken place there, he was delighted to see that, with spring arriving, the landscape was recovering from the damage inflicted on it. [Ref. Richard Cork (1994). A Bitter Truth – Avant Garde Art and the Great War. Yale University Press & The Barbican Art Gallery.] However, on the night of 25 May 1917, Nash fell into a trench, broke a rib and, by 1 June, had been invalided back to London. A few days later the majority of his former unit were killed in an assault on a position known as Hill 60. [Ref. David Boyd Haycock (2009). A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War. Old Street Publishing(London). ISBN 978-1-905847-84-6.]