Captain Rice and 2nd Lt Lilley, 8th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment, playing cards at Poperinghe, near Ypres, 1917

Watercolour, signed lower right, 'Ernest Carlos', by Lieutenant Ernest Stafford Carlos (1883-1917), 8th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1917 (c).

Two British officers, Captain Neill Dewar Rice and 2nd Lieutenant Augustus Arthur Lilley, wearing shorts, sit drinking and playing cards in a tent on the Western Front.

The artist, Lieutenant E S Carlos was killed in action at Zillebeke during the Battle of Messines, on the 14 June 1917. He is buried at the Chester Farm Cemetery in Belgium.