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As an Official War Artist, Hennell spent most of January and February 1945 in the Netherlands with the RNVR whilst the Allies continued their advance into Germany.
'Hennell described the harsh winter of January 1945 as "unpropitious for outdoor work". But as Edward Bawden remarked to Edward Ardizzone: "Tom... thinks no more of physical discomfort than a polar bear."'
In a letter from that period Hennell relates: '"I was standing to draw some skaters in a N.E. wind" and could "only just hold my pencil & board for the cold".Nevertheless, Hennell thought the figures skating on the old medieval town moat "a lovely sight".'
Jessica Kilburn, Thomas Hennell. The Land and the Mind, London: Pimpernel Press, 2021, page 298 and 297
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