Thomas Hughes VC
the seed
so as I was leaving Hope Castle in Castleblayney I noticed this on a wall and decided to take a picture, when I got home it was a few days before I remembered to look him up, during that time I was already thinking about painting a gun team up for Dicky Boyd and Pete Barfield’s Remembering the Armistice group but that changed once I had read up on Thomas.
receiving his VC from King George VThomas wasn’t a big man, before the war he’d been a jockey, so after being wounded and returning to the lines he managed to take out a machine gun emplacement and capture several German prisoners.
the inspiration for the diorama
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