page_title: Edward Seago
section_title: Wartime camoufleur
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Seago / Wartime camoufleur
caption_attribution_description: English: General Lord Gort, Vc - at the Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, 1940 image: A portrait of Gort, wearing uniform, sitting and writing at his desk in his office at BEF Headquarters. Behind him is a large fireplace with a clock on the mantelpiece and wood panelling on the walls.
context_page_description: Edward Brian Seago RBA ARWS RWS was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours.
context_section_description: Heart problems, identified at the age of seven, dogged him all of his life. He had to resort to subterfuge to join the army at the outbreak of the Second World War. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 3 December 1939, with the Army number 110235 and was employed on developing camouflage techniques for Field Marshal Auchinleck, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He continued painting whilst with the Army and gave paintings to those with whom he served. Major Eddy Hodges DSO of 2nd Battalion The King's Regiment may not have been alone in folding his painting so that it fitted in the pocket of his Battle Dress blouse.  Edward Seago relinquished his Commission on account of ill-health whilst serving as a War Substantive Captain and was granted the honorary rank of Major on 16 October 1944.
caption: General Lord Gort, VC, at the Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, 1940
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