File:Marine with a Lee Enfield rifle and bayonet- Zeebrugge, 1918 RMG PU9966.jpg

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William Lionel Wyllie  (1851–1931)  wikidata:Q2579750
 
William Lionel Wyllie
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W. L. Wyllie; William Lionel Wylie; W. L. Wylie; William Wyllie; W.J. Wylie
Description British painter, artist, landscape painter and marine painter
Date of birth/death 5 July 1851 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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creator QS:P170,Q2579750
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English: Marine with a Lee Enfield rifle and bayonet: Zeebrugge, 1918
A full-length study of a man advancing left to right in full battle readiness, at the run, with gas-mask pouch, tin hat and bayonet fixed on his Lee-Enfield rifle. This is a study used for Wyllie's oil painting of 'The Storming of Zeebrugge Mole, St George's Day, 23 April 1918', now in possession of HMS 'Excellent', the naval gunnery school at Whale Island, Portsmouth, which shows HMS 'Vindictive' alongside the mole and marines moving forward, en masse, down it.
Date 1918
Dimensions 355 mm x 253 mm
Notes Box Title: Wyllie: Mainly 1st World War.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/114117
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Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC V1, P8, 65
Caird Catalogue Wyllie Collection Number: 50 U
id number: PAD9966
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