In 1917 Jan Gordon was appointed a Lieutenant in the RNVR in order to work with Norman Wilkinson, the inventor of the top secret Dazzle camouflage for navy vessels.
He worked at the Royal Academy designing these complex patterns.

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A scan of a poor photocopy of an article by Jan Gordon Lieut,RNVR as he was in 1918. from the short lived periodical  "Land and Water" run by Hilaire Belloc from 1914-20.

One of the first articles to explain the basis of the thinking behind the development of Dazzle Camouflage
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A rare illustration in colour of an un-named merchant vessel in Dazzle paint demonstrates the startling effect of the schemes.