The Tayabas Road detail coming in from work, Philippine Islands, 1942

Original oil painting signed by Steele; 2 British prisoners burying a third, while another soldier reads from booklet (prayer book?) as Japanese guard looks on; jungle background. Original oil painting signed by Steele; 2 British prisoners burying a third, while another soldier reads from booklet (prayer book?) as Japanese guard looks on; jungle background. Steele enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was presented at the bombing of Clark Field, Philippines in September 1941. Evacuated and assigned to front lines on Bataan, he was captured in April 1942 and was in the Bataan Death March. After internment in various POW camps, he was shipped to Japan where he worked in a coal mine until liberation in September 1945. This is one of two paintings in the collection. In wooden frame. Gift of the artist.