List of camoufleurs
Second World War

List of camoufleurs

Section Title: Second World War
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Name	Dates	Description

Tony Ayrton	1909–43	British painter, right-hand man to Geoffrey Barkas during Operation Bertram

Geoffrey Barkas	1896–1979	British film maker, leader of British desert camouflage unit

Hugh Casson	1910–99	British architect, worked on camouflage for Air Ministry 1939–1944

John Codner	1913–2008	British painter, camouflage in Western Desert

Edward Bainbridge Copnall	1903–73	British sculptor, born in Cape Town; camouflage in Western Desert 1942

Hugh Cott	1900–87	British zoologist, author of textbook Adaptive Coloration in Animals, advisor to British Army during Battle of Britain, chief instructor at Middle East Command School of Camouflage at Helwan, Egypt

Frederick Gore	1913–2009	British fauvist painter, camouflage officer for southeast England preparing for D-Day landings

Stanley William Hayter	1901–88	British surrealist painter, printmaker; with Roland Penrose set up camouflage training unit

Ivan Konev	1897–1973	Russian general, responsible for maskirovka including army-scale camouflage and dummy units in the Battle of Kursk, achieving tactical surprise

Jasper Maskelyne	1902–73	British stage magician, camouflage in Western Desert 1942, exaggerating his role and effectiveness

Oliver Messel	1904–78	English stage designer, pioneer of pillbox (concrete strongpoint) camouflage

Colin Moss	1914-2005	British social realism artist, camouflage officer at Royal Leamington Spa Camouflage Directorate, senior lecturer of figure drawing at the Ipswich Art School

Roland Penrose	1900–84	English surrealist artist; teacher of camouflage, author of Home Guard Manual of Camouflage

Peter Proud	1913–89	Scottish film art director, camouflage in Western Desert 1942 including Siege of Tobruk and dummy port at Ras el Hillal; invented "Net Gun Pit"

Fred Pusey	1909–83	British film art director and production designer, camouflage in Western Desert 1942 including dummy railhead at Misheifa, dummy port at Ras el Hillal and Operation Crusader

Brian Robb	1913–79	English painter, illustrator, Punch cartoonist; camouflage in Western Desert, Operation Bertram 1942

Johann Georg Otto Schick	1882-	German art professor, from 1935 director of the newly formed camouflage department (named "T" for "Tarnung", camouflage) where he designed a series of disruptive patterns for camouflage clothing including Platanenmuster (plane tree) and erbsenmuster (pea dot) for the Waffen-SS.

Peter Scott	1909–89	British ornithologist, conservationist and painter of wildfowl, and naval officer exploring ship camouflage

Edward Seago	1910–74	English post-impressionist painter, camouflage advisor to Field Marshal Auchinleck

Alan Sorrell	1904–74	English neo-romanticist painter and illustrator; camouflaged Royal Air Force aerodromes

Basil Spence	1907–76	Scottish architect (Art Deco style 1933); officer in British Army's Camouflage Training and Development Unit at Farnham

Steven Sykes	1914–99	British stained glass designer, ceramist and painter; first Grade 2 Camouflage Staff Officer in British army; created dummy railhead at Misheifa, Egypt in 1941, dummy port at Ras al Hilal, Cyrenaica in 1942.

Ernest Townsend	1880–1944	British portrait painter; camouflaged roofs of Rolls-Royce aircraft engine factories in Derby as houses

Julian Trevelyan	1910–88	British printmaker and teacher; pioneer of desert camouflage and deception

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Messel was one of the camoufleurs in the Second World War.

final_sentence: Messel was one of the camoufleurs in the Second World War.