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1914-1918WW1 Cartoon of a Tommy
A pen and watercolour full length study of a smiling,
rosy-cheeked Canadian soldier, with the shoulder patch
of the 14th Battalion, 1st Canadian Division, by Henry
Ross Wiggs (1895-1986) Canadian. Signed and titled,
Tommy”. Framed.”
H. Ross Wiggs, architect and painter, was born in Quebec
City in 1895. He studied Architecture at McGill Univer-
sity and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In Montreal, he practiced architecture from 1933 to
1967, primarily on his own and with partners Lawton
andWalker from 1955 to 1967. He studied drawing and
painting with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen.
Wiggs served in the First WorldWar and his war draw-
ings are in the collection of the War Museum in Ottawa.
Wiggs was also Chairman of the Historical and Fine
Buildings Committee from 1953 to 1954. He died in 1986
in Hamilton, Ontario. At least four of his First WorldWar
portraits were reproduced as post cards by the Canadian
War Museum.The soldier depicted in this original art
work differs from the one issued as a postcard by the
Canadian War Museum in having a shoulder patch of the
4th Canadian Division, 54th Battalion as opposed to the
1st Canadian Division, 14th Battalion.
25 x 19in. (63_ x 48.26cm)
Estimate €250-€350 £180-£260
154
1914WorldWar I Out to the Front” Recruiting
Song of the Irish Brigade”
A. R. (Arthur Ryan) : Out to the Front! - Recruiting Song
of the Irish Brigade 1914. Words and Music by A. R. -
Dedicated by Kind Permission to John E. Redmond. M. P.
Sheet Music, 4 Pages, Dublin Cramer Wood & Co. (1915).
This copy has the interesting ownership stamps of: Ma-
jor L.(aurence) Roche, R.M.F. of Bruree, Co. Limerick - GAA
& IAAA medal winner, 8th Munster Fusiliers 1914-18, and
author of ‘Dromin Local History and Traditions’.A.(loys)
Duffner - Tipperary jeweller and watchmaker who spent
time during the First WorldWar in the Oldcastle intern-
ment camp in Co. Meath
Canon Arthur Ryan was the Parish Priest of St. Michael’s
Church, Tipperary Town from 1903 to 1922. He was an
ardent nationalist, and although a friend and corre-
spondent of Pádraig Pearse, he followed John Redmond
in the belief that Home Rule would result from the
enthusiastic involvement of Irishmen in the Great War.
In 1916 he travelled to the Western Front visiting and
ministering to the troops of the 16th Irish Division. A
member of the ‘Scarteen’ Ryan family of Limerick, his
nephew John Joseph Ryan was killed in Flanders in
February 1915.
14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm)
Estimate €200-€300 £150-£220