Cecil Beaton photograph of a British soldier drinking tea next to a Red Cross mobile tea wagon at Calcutta airport in 1944
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information in July 1940, Beaton travelled throughout Britain, the Middle East, India, China and Burma and captured a world on the brink of lasting change
Part of the range which accompanies IWM Londonâs major exhibition Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War.
Print canvas 29.7cm x 42cm (A3). Photograph 28cm x 29.5cm
© IWM (IB 1882)
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