[Our tent is just the same only it has me and the fowls]

Depicts the interior of a tent with a caricature of the artist and two fellow war correspondents, Cliff Eager and Noel Adams, asleep in their beds while a number of chickens scratch and peck around on the tent floor. This sketch formed part of a letter written on 19/7/1945 by Pidgeon. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the Second World War many of his illustrations were published in the 'Australian Women's Weekly', which made him famous nationally. His works richly convey the lives and personalities of Australian troops and their experiences in Darwin (1943-44), New Guinea (Jan-Feb 1944) and Borneo and Morotai (Jan-Aug 1945). This work is one of over 400 items by WEP donated to the Memorial consisting of illustrated letters, paintings, sketches, drawings, photographs and ephemeral material related to his time as a war correspondent.

Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter and Elizabeth Pidgeon in memory of William Edwin Pidgeon 2014