This drawing of sleeping soldiers by Enid Abrahams bears a second image of a Welsh chapel on the reverse which is signed with her married name 'Dreyfus' (and dated (indistinctly) 1968), however, this earlier work can be dated to the Second World War. Abrahams was part of a group of women artists including Olga Lehmann, Rachel Reckitt, and Elsie Gledstanes), who, during the war, much like their better-known male counterparts Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, William Rothenstein and others, made work on subjects such as Air Raid precautions and the work of the fire, ambulance and rescue services. Her drawing, Fire Women Resting: London Blitz, c. 1941, depicting sleeping women fire fighters (included in the exhibition In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, Royal Air Force Museum, London (27 March 2020 - 28 March 2021), could well be a companion piece to this image of exhausted soldiers. The Royal Air Force Museum also contains an Enid Abrahams watercolour entitled Damaged Buildings, London Blitz, from this period.