I'm starting on a new art exhibition and working from photos from World War II. My father, John Davidson Cassidy, was the oldest of six boys, and five of them went to war. The youngest boy Gavin, was too young. Dad was married with two children (I wasn't born until 1944) so did not go over to the UK at the start of World War II like a lot of Australians did, including his brothers Hugh and Jim. Hugh was in the navy, and Jim in the RAF and both were decorated by the King. I have started off with a painting of dad with his air crew in New Guinea (he was a Navigator), and since then have worked in my sketch book doing preliminary sketches.
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