Nigerian soldiers with their Mallam, 1944 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1944 (c).

Nigerian soldiers, probably from a battalion of the Nigeria Regiment of 81st West African Division, sit with their Mallam, an Islamic teacher, during a break from the fighting in Burma.

From an album of 36 photographs compiled by Captain E B Mee (later Major), Royal Signals, 81st West African Division.