Walter E. Spradbery - part 2

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 2 of a 4-part series on the works of Walter E. Spradbery:

1922-24 The Golden Hind: Art & Literature magazine:

Lithographs found in several issues of The Golden Hind, the art and literature magazine founded and edited by English writer Clifford Bax and English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare, published in eight issues from 1922 to 1924 by Chapman and Hall in London.

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1924 Ascot Sunday - Book to Richmond by Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 General: Beaconsfield Bus No.98
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 General: Beaconsfield By Bus No.98
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Blackberry Time in the Country: London's Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Book to Richmond, Hampstead and Harrow Hill: Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Chessington for Surrey Commons
Ride General and Ride Well
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Edgware: Fast Trains Every Few Minutes: Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Chipping Ongar For Forests and Farms
Ride General and Rode Well
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Chessington For Surrey Commons
Ride General and Ride Well
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Downe For The North Downs
Ride General and Ride Well
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 Rich Repose of Autumn: General
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1924 To the Harvest Fields: London's Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1925 Elstree For The Northern Heights
Ride General and Ride Well
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1925 Kenwood: London's New Park: Underground
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

c1925 LN.E.R.  Ripon
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1926 Beaconsfield: General: Bus No.98
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1926 Chipping Ongar: Route 10 (Sundays)
from Elephant & Castle
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1926 Dorking:  Route 70 Daily
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1926 Farningham: Route 21 Daily
colour lithograph poster for London Transport

1927 Batchworth Heath
colour lithograph poster (proof) for London Transport

1927 Farnborough
colour lithograph poster (proof) for London Transport

Richmond
colour lithograph poster (proof) for London Transport