NAM.1999-07-42-1

Hospital scene, probably in India, 1942 (c). Pencil sketch by Wilfrid J Myers, 1942 (c). A patient, upright in bed, playing draughts with three visitors, with another figure beyond sitting between beds covered with half cylinder-barrels. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). These sketches were drawn when Private Myers was on active service with the Royal Berkshire Regiment and as part of Wingate’s Chindits in Burma.

World War Two, India (1939-1945), World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)