The object is a photograph of a group of people having dinner at Hirjas House, Burma in 1944. It shows three young men sitting around a table with two seated women and a third, indistinct, figure standing behind them. The photograph is captioned in handwritten black ink: "1944 / The three of us pilots and the women of the Burmese aristocrat / family we relieved living in a remote Burmese village in deep jungle / country. We are enjoying a delicious local supper. One woman educated / in England - a medical doctor- the other also British educated a lawyer."