Patriots (2012), oil on linen, 90 x 120 cm  2012

The central figure in this painting is my paternal grandfather Sergeant Albert Victor Walker (b. 1886 Caistor) who served in the 1/5th Territorial Battalion of the Lincolnshire regiment during WW1. (His number was one.) In civilian life Albert worked as an iron turner lathe, marine engineer. He was killed by the Hun on 13th October 1915 aged 30 in an attack on the Hohenzol...