'Le Basset', 1915

Watercolour by Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Bond DSO, 2nd Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, from a sketchbook of drawings and paintings in pastel, watercolour, pen and ink.

Magdeburg prisoner of war (POW) camp in Saxony was used to intern Allied officers from the British Empire, France, Belgium, Russia and Serbia. Bond arrived at Magdeburg in February 1915. A keen artist, he spent much of his spare time there drawing caricatures of the German guards and his fellow Allied prisoners, including these French officers.