A wounded British soldier being evacuated by Indian Army stretcher bearers, Burma, January 1944

Photograph, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945), 1944.

Lieutenant-General William Slim's 14th Army was a truly multinational force with divisions drawn from Britain, India, East and West Africa and smaller contingents from other countries within the British Empire.

From a collection of official photographs from the Middle and Far East, World War Two collected by Major-General Sir Frank Walter Messervy.