Thread: Pat Rooney caricatures.

Originally Posted by David Layne

Here's one of a dog and for sale on this side of the pond! Unfortunatly not WW2!

Pencil drawing of dog - signed Pat Rooney - eBay (item 230330259379 end time Mar-16-09 18:06:09 PDT)

I broke down and bought this one!

Welcome and thank you kitna (and I can confirm that it does mean "how much/many" in Hindi)

David, that is so cute in an ugly-dog sort of way. Well done

Nothing wrong with breaking down for that, DL. Nice one.

Welcome aboard, Kinta, thanks for the connection to your father-in-law.

William (Pat) Rooney was born in Colchester September 1884 and died 8th January 1966, buried in the extension graveyard of St Peter's Church Boxted Essex which I visited two years ago and took the photo. Always been curious to know more about him since the drawing of my uncle William Kenneth Manifould came into my safe keeping.

Originally Posted by David Layne

During the second world war and for some time after a cartoonist named Pat Rooney visited R.A.F. stations and drew caricatures of R.A.F. personnel.

Not too much is known about Rooney so any help with information about him and further examples of his work would be appreciated.

First one listed is Geoffrey Hall Porter

Second one is my father, Walter Layne.

The third one I know only as "Hank"

Fourth is William Kenneth Manifould

The fifth one is Thomas Maxwell

Grahame welcome to the site and thanks for the additional information.

Welcome aboard, Grahame. Good post to start with!

Recently unearthed family portrate of Jenny Christie 1938.

We don't have any details on where this was done, but it would be nice to know where Pat Ronney was during 1938.

I didn't know who Pat Rooney was until I discovered this forum.

The picture was folded so it didn't scan too well, but looks good framed and is now on the wall in my brothers home.

Hope this helps..

Hi mate. Thanks for dropping in and sharing that pic.