ABSTRACT
This chapter presents art galleries, zoological museums and military training grounds and materials such as art, personal correspondence, photography, dioramas, film, taxidermy, scientific publications and expedition reports. It explains what an expanded approach to the military archive entails. The chapter explains how combining official military documentation with personal biography can contextualise and account for technological innovations in warfare, which can enrich and make tangible military histories and biographies. It focuses on predominately on the life of one of World War II (WWII) British camoufleurs, eminent zoologist and skilful artist Dr Hugh Cott. Cott's biography was a tool to interpret a more complex life, a means to explore some of the spaces and spacings of the development of military camouflage technology. Scientists were included on the list since John Anderson had acknowledged that developments in military camouflage had, so far, possessed too limited a scientific input.
