'Malaya. 137th Field Regiment (Blackpool) Signallers lay cable through swamp', 1941 (c)

Watercolour over pencil, signed and dated in lower right 'L Rawlings, 1943, by Gunner Leo Rawlings (1918-1984), 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, 1943.

Two soldiers in the foreground trail cable from a reel they are carrying through a swamp while a colleague secures some of it to a tree. In his book 'And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder', Rawlings writes about his experiences as a Far Eastern Prisoner of War.