Clearing mud from the 1st East Surrey Regiment's position on the Rapido River, March 1944

Lantern slide, World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1944.

Sergeant Carter, of Bromley, and Private Clapham of Crayford, are shown clearing mud from a track leading to the forward positions of the 1st East Surrey Regiment on the Rapido River. The battalion was then serving with 78th Division.

From a collection of British official war photographs relating to the 78th Division that were given to the 78th Division Battleaxe Club, who then developed slides of them.