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The Imperial War Museum London will reopen on 19th July. William Scott volunteered for the navy in 1942 but was refused on the grounds that he was ‘too light’ (he was around five feet four inches in height). He served instead in the army, at first in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He finally got to be an Engineer in the Engineer Map Making Department where he managed to start painting again. In 1943 Scott was commissioned by Sheila Shannon and W.J. Turner to illustrate ‘Soldiers’ Verse’, an anthology of war poems edited by Patric Dickinson. Scott produced 12 lithographs for the book, which was published in 1945 as one of a series of illustrated poetry books. Sheila Shannon bought Soldier and Girl Sleeping, 1942 Oil on canvas 41 × 50.9 cm / 16ÂŒ × 20 in which is now one of the several William Scott works which are part of the Imperial War Museum, London collection. iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/24084
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