"...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.IWMART15746H

"...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: The scene of a devastated village still smoking from bomb damage. There is debris and corrugated iron
littering the ground.
image verso: A pencil drawing of the head of an unshaven man smoking a pipe, inscribed '21 Remains of the bombed Yong Peng' and Malaya Jan

1942 in blue ink.