Walter Ernest Spradbery was an artist and pacifist. Refusing to take up arms in the First World War, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and became a paramedic and stretcher bearer on the Somme battlefield. Here he earned many citations for bravery including the awarding of a Distinguished Conduct Medal. On the day the Armistice was signed, he wrote from the trenches to his Mother: "Hostilities ceased on all fronts at 11am today. Oh happy mothers, happy sweethearts, happy wives, whose loved ones will come safely back... and those lone souls who have lost their very own; today is too unkind to them - how can they face our joy? 'Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards men' - an unseen choir sings it in our breasts - prompting men to evolve a better world more worthy of our ideals and aspirations. Let us begin." He went on to produce a significant body of work, much of it for London Transport with his famous posters. Married to opera singer, Dorothy d'Orsay, they lived an idyllic existence at their home, 'The Wilderness' in Epping Forest.
This is part 1 of a 4-part series on the works of Walter E. Spradbery:
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| 1912 Underground For Hampstead Heath colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Burnham Beeches: Service No.112 colour lithograph poster published by Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd |
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| 1913 Chingford Mount For Old Chingford Church colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Epping Forest: Service No.56 colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Eton: By Motor Bus No.81 From Hounslow Every Day. colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Maidenhead: Service No.110 colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Windsor: Service No.81 colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1913 Windsor Castle original artwork for the above poster © London Transport Museum collection |
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| 1914 The Open Road: Fresh Air and Sunshine colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1914 Reigate: The Homeward Way in the Cool of Day colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1914 Underground: British Museum New Wing colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
1914-19 World War I subjects:
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| 1914 Trinity College Cambridge, Neville's Court, occupied by wards of the 1st Eastern General Hospital watercolour 43.7 x 54.3 cm |
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| 1914-19 Carrying the wounded at Buire sans Corbie watercolour 50.2 x 71 cm |
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| 1914-19 Courtyard of Edinburgh Castle, showing a wing used as a hospital watercolour 41.8 x 53.8 cm |
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| 1914-19 Neo-Gothic building used as a hospital, with an ambulance in the drive watercolour 42.6 x 49.4 cm |
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| 1914-19 Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Bellahouston, Glasgow watercolour 42.5 x 54 cm |
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| 1914-19 Soldiers in front of a bunker shelter watercolour and gouache 29.2 x 50.7 cm |
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| 1914-19 The Examination Schools, Oxford, while occupied by the Third Southern General Hospital, interior watercolour 44.5 x 45.5 cm |
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| 1914-19 Trinity College Cambridge, the Lime Walk, during occupation by the 1st Eastern General Hospital watercolour 48 x 43 cm |
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| 1919 Third Southern General Hospital, Oxford, extension in the Masonic Buildings watercolour 17.5 x 20 cm |
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| 1919 The Examination Schools, Oxford, while occupied by the Third Southern General Hospital watercolour 42 x 54.2 cm |
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| 1919 St. Dunstan's hostel for the blind, Regents Park, London watercolour 43.9 x 67 cm |
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| 1919 Special Surgical Hospital, Shepherds Bush, London watercolour 53.5 x 65.5 cm |
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| 1919 Edinburgh Castle when in use as a hospital, seen from Prince's Street garden watercolour 38.8 x 52 cm |
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| 1919 2nd Scottish General Hospital Craigleith, the Central Buildings watercolour 40.4 x 45.5 cm |
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| 1920 Harvest Time colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1921 General: Ashtead By Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport 72.5 x 52 cm |
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| 1921 General: Boxhill by Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport 98 x 59.75 cm |
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| 1921 General: Boxhill by Motor Bus Original gouache artwork for the poster 49 x 45cm |
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| 1921 General: Boxmoor by Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1921 General: Burnham Beeches by Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1921 General: Epping Forest by Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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| 1921 General: Woodford for Epping Forest by Motor Bus colour lithograph poster for London Transport |
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