Sketchbook(inscribed inside front cover Iraq, 1943)

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 8224/17
  • Dates of Creation
      1943
  • Physical Description
      1 piece

Scope and Content

Page 1 Group of soldiers in a mess, with one playing the piano, page 2 top: Figures in a store, page 2 bottom: Soldier wearing a coat, page 3 Soldiers and other travellers waiting at a railway station, with a snack bar, page 4 Soldiers and other travellers waiting at a railway station with a stationer's kiosk, page 5 Low buildings and a tall tower, with trees and felled trunks, page 6 Group of trees, page 7 Landscape with stream and a tree trunk forming a bridge, page 8 Landscape with army buildings, page 9 Interior with counter and kitchen beyond, page 10 Soldiers carrying a tree trunk in a wooded area, page 11 Interior of a canteen with soldiers, page 12 Interior of an army office, page 13 Head and shoulders of two soldiers seen from behind, page 14 Two soldiers carrying a wounded man on a stretcher, page 15 Head and torso of a young man lying on his back in bed, page 16 View of army huts, page 17 Two studies of an army truck, page 18 Two studies of the head of a man in profile, page 19 top: Doctor examining a patient, page 19 bottom: Hand holding a medical instrument or torch, page 20 Large army lorry covered with tarpaulin, page 21 Four men in a bar, page 22 Group of soldiers sitting around a table in an army mess, page 23 Army buildings and shed, page 24 List of items of clothing, page 25 Soldier in battledress with a large gun, pack 26 Sailors sitting at long tables, inscribed "Our Mess Deck", page 27 Study of a soldier down to his waist, page 28 Man, wearing underpants, lying asleep, page 29 Two studies of an arab tailor, page 30 Young man sitting on the ground, page 31 View of a built up area on hills, inscribed "Aden", page 32 Group of army tents with a lorry and water storage tank, page 33 Interior of canteen, inscribed "R.C.Canten. Kas", page 34 Head and chest of a sleeping man, page 35 Road with army tents in the background, page 36 Rail track with huts nearby, inscribed "Karassin Station", page 37 A mud hut village, inscribed "Karassin", page 38 Arab house, inscribed "Karassin", page 39 Giant skin carcass of a bull hanging from vertical poles and an officer with a bull's head sitting in a deck chair in the shade of the carcass, page 40 Houses by the side of a railtrack, page 41 Entrance to a building, page 42 Small hut and pen, page 43 Two figures on board a ship, page 44 Landscape with boats and a pier in the foreground and mountains in the background, inscribed "Aden", page 45 Two profile studies of a man, page 46 Unfinished sketch of a seated figure, page 47 Large tent with open door, inscribed "Company Office", page 48 Long building with open air oven, inscribed "Cookhouse", page 49 View of tents and shrubs seen from the back of a lorry, page 50 Three studies of arabs, inscribed "Baghdad West Station", page 51 Studies of arab men, page 52 Studies of arabs, page 53 Studies of an arab man in a long cloak and man carrying a vessel on his head, page 54 Five studies of soldiers, page 55 Landscape with tents, inscribed "17 Reinforcement Camp", page 56 Closer view of two of the tents in Reinforcement Camp 17, page 57 Landscape with scattered tents, page 58 Landscape with man in the forefront seated on a mound, page 59 top: Two seated arabs, page 59 bottom: Figure bending down, page 60 Landscape with low buildings and two cloaked figures digging, page 61 Studies of men in arab dress and a running figure, page 62 Standing sheik and two smaller studies of standing figures, page 63 Studies of arab men wearing long cloaks, page 64 Three arab men and an arab woman by a wall, inscribed "Break for Khana", page 65 Two arab women, one standing, one crouching, page 66 Portrait head in arab head-dress, page 67 Interior of storage tent with food crates, pages 68-70 Blank.