"Mary Adshead was married to the painter Stephen Bone. During the War they spent summer holidays with their children at Barmouth, a seaside resort on Cardigan Bay, North Wales. The sight of a group of soldiers on bicycles free-wheeling down the steep hill into town, their helmets still camouflaged with leafy twigs, must have amused her, and she later painted it from memory." image: Four British soldiers wearing uniform, including steel helmets camouflaged with leafy twigs, ride bicycles down a steep street into the town of Barmouth. A few civilians watch them from the doorways of buildings.