in sight, especially the faces of the lads as they ran for cover." He painted all the walls of his colleagues' canteen, with murals which according to his mother, "represented 'A Soldier's leave in Cairo'. This - I understand, afforded them much interest & amusement." These caught the attention of the officers of the RASC who asked him to create some murals in their Officers Mess. The subject of the murals being "The Pleasures of Avarice" and "The Pleasures of Art", he started a third mural of "The Last Supper", "but this was never finished as his company was moved up the line." The mural appears to represent a combination of these subjects. He signed the mural on 21 April 1942, a matter of weeks before his death. Brill died on 1 July 1942, the first day of the First Battle of El Alamein, aged 22. He was buried at the El Alamein War Cemetery. References A primary source of material on the Bardia Mural accessed on 28 May 2006 1942 deaths 1920s births English muralists Alumni of the University of Westminster Alumni of the Royal College of Art Year of birth missing 20th-century English painters English male painters East Yorkshire Regiment soldiers British Army personnel killed in World War II Royal Army Service Corps soldiers 20th-century English male artists Burials in Egypt