Assisting an Injured British Pilot, Italy, October 1918 Art.IWMART4535, Sydney Carline

Assisting an injured british pilot, italy, october 1918 image: a view across an airfield in italy, from high ground or from a plane. The airfield is bordered in the immediate foreground and on the right by large tents. In the middle of the composition an injured british pilot is being helped towards a stretcher by two other men. They are surrounded by a crowd of people, with two men holding a stretcher that has been taken from the waiting motor ambulance. The pilot's biplane is immediately to the left. Mountains of the italian alps line the horizon, with another biplane in flight silhouetted against them. Date: 1918 (First World War).