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• In Billets, Winter: Rations Up

  (art) Made by: Budd, Herbert A 1921

  image: A scene showing distribution of rations among British soldiers billeted in a ruined farmhouse. A horse-drawn cart is delivering the rations in the left foreground. Some women are mingling with the soldiers, one holding a large basket. A woman is...

• Potato-peeling Fatigue

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A group of officers sit on a large coil of rope on the deck of a ship peeling potatoes. Another group of five play cards in the centre.

• The Troops' Galley 'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A kitchen on board a ship with a group of officers preparing meals. Other officers peer through hatches and watch the preparation.

• Cookhouse Fatigue at Dinner

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

  image: A view inside a tent. Two men are sitting, facing us at a table. One is eating. Another man, wearing a vest, sits with his back to the viewer. Behind the figures there is an open tent flag through which a camp can be seen.

• Singapore: The cookhouse, Changi Gaol. British POW's prepare their main meal of rice.

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1946

  image: Interior of a FEPOW cookhouse showing emaciated men stirring rice soaking in enamel baths, with other men carrying heavy iron pans filled with rice

• YOUR GROUNDNUTS HELP TO FEED FIGHTING FORCES - THANK YOU GAMBIA!

  (posters)

  image: poster divided into two sections. Top illustration shows three workers processing groundnuts in front of two huge piles of groundnuts with four other workers carrying sacks in left background. Centre background shows a merchant ship ready to...

• 'Thou Shalt Not Steal'

  (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1918

  image: Two British soldiers picking apples in an orchard. The soldier on the left bites into the fruit as he looks around him, while the other, wearing a kilt, leans up to pick from the higher branches.

• Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1942

  image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of the field. The PoWs are wearing clothing marked with a distinctive red spot on the jackets...

• In a Barn near Seclin

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a group of soldiers are sitting on a wall of bails of hay, chatting, relaxing and drinking from mugs, within a large barn. Behind them are three military trucks parked alongside each other, also within the barn.

• Journey by Train from Singapore to Thailand to the 'Rest Camp'

  (art) Made by: Rawlings, Leo

  image: open-topped train carriages containing prisoners-of-war, many of whom are holding out their arms for food from the people by the side of the railway, who are in the bottom left of the composition. A steam engine is directly behind the carriage to...