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The artist and writer Mervyn Peake, invalided out of military service, joined the Design, Poster and Visualising Group of the Ministry of Information in 1942.

Laura Brandon

The artist and writer Mervyn Peake, invalided out of military service, joined the Design, Poster and Visualising Group of the Ministry of Information in 1942.

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About Laura Brandon

Laura Brandon (born 1951) is a Canadian war art historian and the former Historian, Art & War at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. She is the author or co-author of many books, chapters in books and articles in journals such as Canadian Military History and RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. She specializes in writing about the official Canadian artists of the First and Second World War as well as on the role of women artists in the Forces. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2015.