Several works by Dessau featured in these wartime exhibitions including " And So To Bed ", showing a carefully laid-out uniform of an auxiliary fireman, and several fine portraits including one of District Officer Blackstone, who was awarded the George Medal for his actions after a fire station was bombed during the Blitz . " Menace " is a set of four canvases, now in the London Fire Brigade Museum, entitled " Overture ", " Crescendo ", " Rallentando " and " Diminuendo ", which show fire-fighters tackling a giant demonic fire figure which towers over them in the first canvas, " Overture ", but lies defeated in the final " Diminuendo ".
