Sergeant Kuldip Singh, 6 Indian Company, 1020 Platoon; Royal Indian Army Service Corps

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Accession Number ART24266
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 43 x 30 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal with coloured crayons, coloured washes and heightened with white on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made Burma
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Kuldip Singh, 1020 Platoon, 6 Indian Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, serving with Air Dipatch, South East Asia Command, who had made many sorties as a 'chucker-out' of air supplies. He was in charge of the packing of containers for parachute loads and 'free' drops, Burma.