Shared Experience: Battle of Arakan, 1943
Art and War
Anthony Gross CBE RA
Battle of Arakan, 1943
ink & wash
35.8 x 51.4cm
IWM ART LD 3334
An incongruous scene of Indian soldiers shown relaxing, one wearing camouflage, with the two parasols. Gross’s diary describes this incident:
a night patrol brought home the parasols of a geisha girl who had been entertaining the Japanese troops that held a nearby village, along with food from the village gardens.
Gross was sent to Burma to illustrate British and Indian commitment to the area.
Paintings
- The sleeping soldier
Francis Lymburner - Battle of Arakan, 1943
Anthony Gross - Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection
Carel Weight - Potato Peelers
Leonard Brooks - Tocumwal - loading the train
Yosl Bergner - Dream of the latrine sitter
Sidney Nolan - Soldier
Russell Drysdale - A Bofors Gun, Algiers
Henry Carr - 2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up
Ivor Hele - Smoko time with the AWLA
Grace Taylor - Early Morning P.T.
E.J. Hughes - CWAC Beauty Parlor #1
Pegi Nicol MacLeod - Ballet of wind and rain
Colin Colahan - Fatigue
Ralph Walker - Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
Donald Friend