The Minden Rose (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 16" (290mm x 395mm)
Date: c. 1970
Signature: Signed by artist lower right 2nd panel
Code: McBrideMindenRose

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Angus McBride.

On the 1st August each year, every officer and soldier in the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment wears a 'Minden' rose in his headdress in memory of the men of the 37th who, either before or after the Battle, picked red dog-roses from the hedges and put them in their caps.

This tradition was inherited from The Royal Hampshire Regiment and commemorates a great and somewhat unexpected victory over French cavalry during the Seven Year War.

Publication not determined but probably Treasure about 1970.

• Artist Biography
  Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa)
  Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.