6-foot tall and aged 17 the youngest member of his Home Guard unit, Jack was selected to model for Bruce Bairnsfather who was preparing the artwork for a government advertising campaign 'Salute the Soldier, War Savings'. The result was a nationwide campaign of 12-foot posters, newspaper adverts and these plaques.
The picture source is from the local paper where we first heard this story.
Note: we know of three other soldiers who also did some modelling - see Dudley.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Private Jack Askham
At British Military Badges we found a similar plaque on sale for £250: “Mould...
A member of Jas. Shoolbred & Co. Ltd. who served in WW1 and returned. Royal Army Service Corps
Commanding officer of the Bloomsbury Rifles 1880–98.
Died in WW1 serving in the 22nd Battalion, The London Regiment.
A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British go...
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