In May 1938 Capt Lancelot Glasson was recruited to form the Camoflague Unit. He recruited a small group of artists and specialists which gradually expanded as the War unfolded.

William Glasson talks about his father's life and work at the Camoflague Unit.

As part of Glasson's work he was sent on two trips to Russia. Here is a photograph of the Kremlin taken by Glasson in 1941 on a Fed camera purchased whilst he was there.

The telegram Lancelot Glasson received in Russia in 1941, reporting the news of his son's birth.

This photograph is taken towards the end of the War and includes the senior members of the Unit. Top row l-r L.J. Watson, G. Greystone, Yunge Bateman, Christopher Ironside, Coupland, Johnny Walker. Bottom row l-r, G.B. Solomon, Capt L.M.Glasson, Henry Hoyland.

Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Virginia Ironside.

These documents, some in L.M. Glasson's own handwriting, show the structure and organisation of the Unit and lists the main participants.

Organogram of Unit.

A handwritten early organogram of the Unit by L.M. Glasson.

Lists of the design teams. This list is by no means definitive.

Organograms that include all of the Unit's staff.

These cartoons titled Cabbage Camoflague show the Unit's first experimentation with horticultural camoflague and the core members of the Unit are depicted. This core group included Cosmo Clark, R.C.Carline, Robyn Darwin, Gerald Trice Martin, G.B.Solomon, Lt Cmmdr Yunge Bateman, L.J. Stroudley, and G. Watson.