Two officers of the light cruiser HMS Aurora (1913) in a wheat field that has been reaped with the wheat stacked in bundles. Both men are looking at the camera with their long coats draped over their arms. The officer closest to the camera is the Clerk Richard Wallace, RN, with a cigarette in his mouth, and Paymaster William Roe, RN, pipe in mouth, is standing to his left. Other coats are lying on one of the wheat bundles. The wicker picnic basket can just be seen behind Richard Wallace.

Paymaster W. R. Roe left Aurora on 22 July 1917 and the harvest in Britain is usually between July and September depending upon the weather.