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Ceremony of the Keys by Terence Cuneo. One edition. £400.00

The German Surrender at Luneberg Heath, May 1945 by Terence Cuneo. 2 editions. £75.00 - £80.00

Lance Sergeant J D Baskeyfield VC by Terence Cuneo. One edition. £40.00

Captain The Lord Lyell VC by Terence Cuneo. Both editions sold out.

S Company Scots Guards in the battle of Monte Piccolo, Italy 28th May 1944. by Terence Cuneo. This single edition is sold out.

Army Challenger - Operation Desert Storm 1991 Gulf War by Terence Cuneo This single edition is sold out. The edition features an additional signature.

The Battle of Knightsbridge, 6th June 1942 by Terence Cuneo. This single edition is sold out.

Raising the Regiment - The Kings Own Scottish Borderers. March 1689 by Terence Cuneo Both editions sold out.

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Ceremony of the Keys by Terence Cuneo. Ceremonial locking of the Tower of London which takes place every night and has done for centuries. The painting depicts the custodian of the Queens keys, the chief Yeoman Warder being challenged by the sentry on duty who at the time of the painting was a member of the Gurkha Regiment. Terence Cuneo remarked I may be one of the few people to have had the privilege of having the Tower specially reopened for them after it had been ceremonially locked for the night.

The German Surrender at Luneberg Heath, May 1945 by Terence Cuneo. Terence Cuneo's interpretation of the German surrender ending World War Two.

Lance Sergeant J D Baskeyfield VC by Terence Cuneo. During the Battle at Arnhem, Lance Sgt. Baskeyfield (2nd Bt. South Staffordshire Reg.) with all his crew dead or wounded, he continued to man the the 6-pounder alone, until it was put out of action, he then crawled (with a shattered leg) to another undamaged 6-pounder and fired two shots knocking out an advancing self-propelled gun, seconds later he was killed. He was awarded, posthumously, the Victoria Cross.

Captain The Lord Lyell VC by Terence Cuneo. The action depicts at Djebel Bou Aoukaz, Tunisia, 27th April 1943. Depicting Lyell charging the German 88mm gun position single handed (one other supporting Guardsman had been shot and killed) With pistol in one hand and dirk in the other, Lyell leaped forward firing and slashing, Five men fell at his feet, before he was overpowered and hacked to death. The scene was witnessed by a wounded Guardsman on the ridge.

S Company Scots Guards in the battle of Monte Piccolo, Italy 28th May 1944. by Terence Cuneo. S Company Scots Guards along with 3 Company Coldstream Guards, after heavy fighting, captures the hill from the German 1st Parachute regiment.

Army Challenger - Operation Desert Storm 1991 Gulf War by Terence Cuneo On 28th February 1991, the British 1st Armoured Division made their final advance in the Gulf War. Their destination was to be astride the Kuwait City-Basra highway, known as Objective COBALT. Their task was to cut off the remnants of the Iraqi Army as it fled from Kuwait, northwards. In the end, it had only taken 100 hours to rout the Iraqi Army, once the fourth largest in the world. The first British Forces despatched to the Gulf were Tornado aircraft deployed in early August, 1990. On 14th September 1990, Parliament announced the deployment of the 7th Armoured Brigade from its barracks in Germany. Two Regiments of Challenger tanks, The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and The Queens Royal Irish Hussars as well as the 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, an armoured infantry regiment, were despatched. It soon became obvious that the Iraqis were not going to pull out of Kuwait and might have to be ejected by force. Parliament therefore sanctioned, on 22nd November 1990, the despatch of a further brigade from Germany, the 4th Armoured Brigade. Unlike the 7th Armoured Brigade, it only had one Challenger Regiment, the 14/20th Kings Hussars, but two armoured infantry regiments, the 15th Battalion, The Royal Scots and the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. To coordinate both brigades and their support and logistic assets in the field, the Headquarters of the 1st Armoured Division was also despatched, making the British deployment the largest the country has seen since the Second World War. The British 1st Armoured Division was deployed to the Gulf with some of the most sophisticated and up-to-date equipment seen on the modern battlefield. Central to this were the Challenger Mk. 3s and the Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Both were heavily modified for fighting in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, with primary importance being given to protection. The deployment of the Challengers and Warriors were augmented with 18 Lynx Mk.7s of 4 Regiment, the Army Air Corps. The Mk. 7 is a dedicated anti-tank helicopter armed with 8 TOW anti-tank missiles. The proposed use for these aircraft was to form a forward screen in front of the advancing brigades, thus giving warning of enemy units as well as engaging any detected enemy armour. By the beginning ofJanuary 1991, the British 1st Armoured Division was fully deployed in the Gulf. Not long after, it was redeployed tinder command of the VII(US) corps that was secretly moxing to an area some 300k in to the west. Even as the first air attacks were launched against the Iraqi forces, massive convoys were moving towards the Saudi town of Hafir-al-Batin. On 24th February, simultaneous assaults were launched along the whole of the Kuwait and Iraqi borders. The American Ist Infantry Division, The Big Red One, led the VII(US) Corps and by nightfall had cleared sixteen lanes through the Iraqi positions. So well did the advance go that the British 1st Armoured Division was launched some twelve hours earlier than had been expected. 7th Armoured Brigade preceded 4th and both were well clear of the break-in point and forming up within a matter of hours. During the next 95 hours, both brigades fought their way first northwards and then eastwards through one Iraqi position after another. The case with which they defeated the enemy, already badly mauled by six weeks of constant air bombardment and now subjected to murderous artillery fire, surprised even the most confident commanders. By the third day, 28th February, the Coalition Forces had encircled the occupying Iraqi Forces within Kuwait causing them to retreat northwards towards Basra. By this time, the Iraqis were offering no resistance. Such was their overwhelming defeat, that the Coalition Commanders advised the American President, George Bush, to suspend offensive combat operations. This he did, announcing a general ceasefire to take effect at midnight on 27/28th February 1991. The difference between American Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Meantime was five hours. It was decided, therefore, that the British 1st Armoured Division would move with best speed to the Kuwait City-Basra Highway to finally close the noose around the fleeing Iraqi forces. The British objective was known as COBALT and lay some 70kin due cast. At fifteen minutes notice to move, both British brigades made one final dash to their last objective, some 30-odd kilometres north of Kuwait City itself. That last morning action will be remembered for a long time by those who were there and is the scene portrayed in Cuneos painting. Above them, the dense clouds of the burning oil and gas rigs blocked out the bright desert sun. As they approached their final objective, the remains of numerous Iraqi vehicles littered the desert. Most of them had been destroyed from the air. Iraqi T-69 tanks lay wrecked, their turrets blown off by the force of exploding ammunition. Preceded by the Lynx helicopters, the British knew they were nearing their objectives due to the lines of pylons that intersected the desert, now mostly with their cables dangling in the sand. Within two hours, COBALT was secured, ensuring the final Iraqi defeat.

The Battle of Knightsbridge, 6th June 1942 by Terence Cuneo. The battle of Knightsbridge was part of the battle of the Cauldron, fought by the 8th Army in the western desert, 2nd-11th June 1942 against the tanks of Rommels Afrika Korps. The image shows the 426th Battery of the 107th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, the South Nottinghamshire Hussars as tanks of the Afrika Korps attacked over a three day period. With all their ammunition gone and all suffering wounds the Battery was forced to surrender.

Raising the Regiment - The Kings Own Scottish Borderers. March 1689 by Terence Cuneo Originally the 25th Foot, the regiment was raised in Edinburgh on 18th March 1689 by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, for the defence of the city against the Jacobites during the Glorious Revolution that brought William of Orange to England. Records show that the regiment was completely recruited to a strength of 1,000 men within the space of two hours. They were soon required for active service and at the battle of Killiecrankie underwent their baptism of fire against the rebel Highlanders led by Claverhouse. Recognition of the fighting spirit of Levens Edinburgh Regiment came at once in the spontaneous conferment on it, by the Provost of Edinburgh, of the exclusive privilege to recruit by beat of drum in the city on any day, except Sunday, without first asking the permission of the Lord Provost. A further privilege was conferred later, which remains to this day, of marching through the City of Edinburgh with bayonets fixed and Colours flying. In 1782 the historic title of The Edinburgh Regiment was dropped and that of The Sussex Regiment adopted. King George III honoured the regiment in 1805 by raising it to the status of a Royal Regiment and changing its title to The Kings Own Borderers. The change of title to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers was officially approved in 1887, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Cuneo has depicted the scene at Holyrood Abbey at nightfall on 18th March 1689 when 1,000 men answered the call to arms. The Earl of Leven and the Muster Master watch from horseback while the clerk lists the men and issues the first days pay. The yellow ribbon on the arm of the recruit was issued as a mark of recognition until uniform could be provided.