The death of Eric Ravilious in Iceland in 1943 left a vacancy among war artists and Mr T Hennell was appointed by Sir Kenneth Clark to take his place.
   In May 1944 he was given a temporary Commission as a war artist and sent to France to be with Canadians. The pictures he produced were of such excellence and daring that Sir Kenneth Clark subsequently gave them a whole wall to themselves in an exhibition at the National Gallery.
   He was sent to the Channel Ports to draw the big guns there and finally he went to the Far East where he was killed in Sourabaya in November 1945.
   His younger brother, David Barclay Hennell also died while on Active service in the 1939-45 War.

A portrait of Thomas Hennell with specimen of his signature

A few illustrations of his work as reproduced by 
C. Henry Warren in an article in the Autumn 
1957 issue of "The Countyman".