Captain Rice and 2nd Lt Lilley, 8th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment, playing cards at Poperinghe, near Ypres, 1917
watercolour, drawing
Accession Number
NAM.1991-11-48-1
Description
Captain Rice and 2nd Lt Lilley, 8th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment, playing cards at Poperinghe, near Ypres, 1917. Watercolour, signed lower right ‘Ernest Carlos’, by Lt Ernest Stafford Carlos, 8th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1917 (c). Two British officers, Captain Neill Dewar Rice and 2nd Lieutenant Augustus Arthur Lilley, wearing shorts, sit drinking and playing cards in a tent on the Western Front. Lt Carlos was killed at Battle Wood, Zillebeke, Belgium, 14 June 1917. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).
Campaigns
World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)
