'Carrier Park, Jerusalem 6/6/47', 'Carriers Parked', Palestine, 1947

Pen and ink drawing on the blank back of an Army Form C2136 (Small) (Message Form), by Lance Corporal Robert Humphrys, Signal Platoon, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, 1947.

Overhead oblique view of five Universal Carriers in an enclosure protected by barbed-wire, with large packing cases in the foreground.

Robert Humphrys served in Palestine during his National Service 1946-1948). The drawing is made on the reverse of an Army Signal Message Form with his fountain pen, and shows a view from the Old Windmill, the Signal Platoon's base.