HMS Mantis by Ivan Berryman. AIT278 Launched in January 1915

Launched in January 1915

In February 1944

Signed limited edition of 20 giclee art prints

Dasht means plain or desert

the crew of an SdKfz 10 light half-track stop to investigate a crashed P-40 Kittyhawk belonging to No 112 Squadron RAF

HMS Mantis by Ivan Berryman. AIT278 Launched in January 1915DHM6796. HMS Mantis by Ivan Berryman. An Insect class river gunboat, HMS Mantis took part in operations on the River Tigris in modern day Iraq in World War One. A British Army advance up the Tigris in 1915 took the town of Kut al Amara, but this army of more than 10,000 men were besieged by the Turks here, eventually surrendering in April 1916. With other river gunboats, HMS Mantis had attempted to help break the siege from early March 1916, and