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training exercises, parachutes being packed and RAF operations rooms. In the spring of 1943, WAAC assigned
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during World War One, service which left him with lifelong hearing damage. After the war, Pitchforth returned to his studies in Leeds where he won a scholarship that allowed him to study at the
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in 1974. Throughout this period he continued to exhibit both in
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War paint: Art, War, State and
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