Albert Herbert

Albert Herbert (10 September 1925, Bow[1] in London – 10 May 2008) was a British abstract and religious artist, painter and etcher.

[1] His regiment had lost three-quarters of its men to death and injury by 1945 when it crossed the Rhine.

An old schoolfriend, Bryan Forbes, then a member of the "Stars in Battledress" forces entertainment troupe, picked him as a stage designer.

In 1984 Thames Television made a film, Albert Herbert's War, about his wartime experiences.

[3] At the Royal College of Art he met a sculpture student, Jacqueline Henly, and they married in 1951.