{"id":1052,"date":"2013-11-08T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2013-11-08T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:12:00","slug":"thomas-harold-beament-artist-and-naval-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Harold Beament; Artist and Naval Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HMCS Prince Robert in Drydock<\/i> (n.d.) <\/p>\n

Thomas Beament Was born in Ottawa. During WW I he served in the RCNVR
\n as an ordinary seaman, then was promoted to warrant officer. Following
\nthe end of the war he returned to Osgoode Hall and completed his studies
\n to became Barrister-at-law (1922). The same year he attended evening
\nclasses at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He Continued serving
\nwith the peacetime Naval Reserve, was promoted to the rank of officer in
\n 1924 and finally Lt.-Commander, Mtl. RCNVR Division in 1930. <\/p>\n

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\nHMCS Iroquois<\/i> (n.d.) <\/p>\n

At
\n the outbreak of WW II, Beament entered full-time service with the
\nRCNVR, as a ship commander on North Atlantic patrols for three years,
\nrose in rank to Commander (1943); then as official Canadian war artist
\ngoing back to sea to paint scenes: in the Mediterranean; on convoy in
\nthe North Atlantic; in Newfoundland; making a visual record of assault
\nlandings and minesweeping duties in the English Channel. The Canadian
\nWar Museum has some 76 paintings by him.<\/p>\n

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\nMotor Torpedo Boats Leaving for Night Patrol off Le Havre<\/i> (1945) <\/p>\n

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A Collection Of Naval Art Decorated the Chambers of the Speaker of the Senate for the Canadian Naval Centenial. You can view that collection at http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/About\/Senate\/WorkofNavalArt\/index-e.html. <\/a><\/p>\n

All Works above Are part of the Beaverbank Collection of War Art at the Canadian War Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HMCS Prince Robert in Drydock (n.d.) Thomas Beament Was born in Ottawa. During WW I he served in the RCNVR as an ordinary seaman, then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,70,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}