Description
Object description
Album 2 contains: portrait of Mrs. Paterson, wife of Lieutenant Colonel U J Paterson, officer commanding the 2nd Battalion, Bombay Grenadiers; various scenes showing the 14th Army Unit on the Arakan Front including: Indian gunners firing from a mountain position, Gurkha soldiers, Brigadier Roberts and Major Abbott watching operations, wounded being evacuated by motor sampan including Corporal Scott of the Queen's Royal Regiment, a supply-convoy on the mountain road through the Chin Hills, portraits of Company Sergeant Chapman, Corporal Thomas, Corporal Moon and Corporal Miller; scenes at an RAF airfield on the Indo-Burmese border including: pilots showing a group of locals over a Spitfire, portraits of Squadron Leader W M Whitamore of No. 81 Squadron and Pilot Officer Coulter; coolies working on a mountain road; scenes after a Japanese raid in Arakan including: a native basha set on fire and the owner salvaging her possessions; portrait of Major Crawford RAMC in his mobile surgical theatre; views of a fisherman casting his net in the Kalapanzin River; views of wounded men in a field dressing station; portrait of Jemadar Bombardier Gurune; portraits of 14th Army Liaison Officers: Captain R N Malet, Major R M Macfarlane, Major Jacobs and Major Reitchel; portraits of General H R Briggs and Colonel Noble; Private Worfold carrying out maintenance on a carrier at a forward H.Q.; portraits of Captain May and Regimental Sergeant Major Noke; scenes at an Art and Industries Fair in Calcutta showing: the entrance to the Exhibition, a model of the Hooghly River Bridge and "Grow More Rice" posters; scenes at an Indian Jute factory including: portraits of Mr Anthony Best, a director of the factory Henderson & Co., finished products being loaded onto a freighter on the River Hooghly, Indian women at work in a factory; scenes at an Indian Munitions Factory including: views of a shell workshop and Indian men working on a Howitzer breach; various portraits of Mr R G Casey, the Governor of Bengal, with his wife and their children at Government House in Calcutta.