Yesterday I had the opportunity o go to the opening of Arabella Dorman's exhibition at the Frost and Reed gallery in King Street. The pictures were varied and exciting - depicting modern warfare in more human style of conventional warfare. The light on the radio operator's face, the drama, the tension and the periods of prolonged boredom are all well recorded in this exhibition.

But perhaps the most striking thing about the show was the collection of punters. On top of the usual crowd that go and drink and chat there was a large assembly of immaculately dressed and very up-right gentlemen. Tall proud and proper, strutting their stuff. These are the men that are featured in the very paintings - heroic, calm, dignified and caputured on canvass in another world thousands of miles from King Street W1. There they showed courage and sense of duty. Here in London they were back in civilian clothes and better dressed and better mannered than any of the rest of us. Modest, polite and quite unassuming - these really are the unsung heros of the campaign. Proud of the job they had done and saluting the paintings of their friends and colleagues (some of them posthumous) they wanted nothing more from their role in our lives. Professor Richard Holmes, author and broadcaster, said that 'not many people these days know the difference between a Brigadier or a Bombardier - and yet look at the job they are doing...' How very different from that self serving, self advancing shower of public servants no more than 800 yards away at Westminster

Arabela Dorman 12th to 30th May 2-4 King Street W1