Harold William Hailstone
Harold William Hailstone (14 July 1897 – 21 November 1982) was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who served as an official war artist. He was born on 14 July 1897 in London, England. His father William Edward Hailstone was a dentist.
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Harold William Hailstone
Harold William Hailstone · http: 144/media-144306/large.jpg This photograph Art.IWM ART LD 5273 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. · Public domain
- Education
- Goldsmiths College
- Born
- 1897 · London.
- Died
- 1982 · Hadlow.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- illustrator · cartoonist · war artist
- Languages
- English
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Harold William Hailstone (14 July 1897 – 21 November 1982) was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who served as an official war artist. He was born on 14 July 1897 in London, England. His father William Edward Hailstone was a dentist.
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He was educated at The Judd School. During World War I he served first in the army and then as a trainee pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. He subsequently attended Goldsmiths College alongside Graham Sutherland. His work was published in journals including the Illustrated London News, Punch, The Sketch, Strand Magazine, and Tatler. He returned to military service immediately before and during World War II, joining the Royal Air Force from 1938 to 1945, being a flight lieutenant from 1940, and was appointed a war artist in 1944. After the war, he was a staff cartoonist for the Daily Mirror. In retirement he lived at Corneys Cottage, Hadlow, Kent, where he died on 21 November 1982. Some of his works are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. His younger brother was the portraitist Bernard Hailstone.
Disembarking to the Beaches image: A docked landing ship with a stream of military trucks driving out of her open bow doors and up a slipway.
Harold William Hailstone · http: 144/media-144299/large.jpg This photograph Art.IWM ART LD 4942 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
A Landing Ship Tank at the Wharf, St Peter Port, Guernsey - May 1945 image: A landing ship with her bow doors open looms over a large crowd assembled on the quay. They are greeting the British soldiers, who hang over the ship's railings and wave back.
Harold William Hailstone · http: 144/media-144313/large.jpg This photograph Art.IWM ART LD 5599 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
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• List — ubl • Education — Goldsmiths College • Illustration — The Surrender - Hailstone's sketch of the German Commandant's surrender on Alderney in May 1945
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- 1.Bryant, Mark. The Dictionary of 20th-century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Routledge. 2018. 978-1-351-78609-6.
- 2.34949. 20 September 1940. 5592.
- 3.Service number 90492
- 4.H W Hailstone. Imperial War Museums.
- 5.Core Record IWM. vads.ac.uk.
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