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CAPTAIN PETER McINTYRE’S EXPERIENCES. BATTLEFIELD SKETCHING. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) CAIRO, March 23. In an interview, Captain Peter McIntyre, an exhibition of whose sketches and paintings was opened recently at the New Zealand Forces Club, said: “I would go out with a driver and a bodyguard in a lorry, taking a sketchbook and a few canvases. I would try to find where action was most concentrated and I would try to sketch with pencil, usually from a lorry. When it gets a bit hot, I move into a slit trench. Once I found myself the senior officer in a platoon which the enemy was attacking. I had little experience, but somehow we got amongst them and captured a German machinegun post.” 1 When Captain Mclntyre was lying in a trench during a heavy action a mortar shell wrecked his lorry, but six completed paintings were not damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3
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151ART UNDER FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3
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