"...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we plunged Art.IWMART15746G2

"...The retreat to the Bakri - Yong Peng road, after one of the most bloody battles of the campaign, was a shock
baptism for us...my final memory of Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam was of feeling my skin blister as we plunged through the flaming ruins of the
villages we were burning..." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle
image recto: A sketch of a road showing a blown-up car and a large crater with burning jungle in the upper left of the
composition.
image verso: Various small ink figure sketches titled 'Tamil Indians, Tarsao, Thailand'. An ink sketch of the head of a Japanese soldier;

the inscription next to it reads 'Crooked hand period Sept 19 1943'.