'Magdeburg camp', March 1915

Pastel drawing 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.

Lieutenant-Colonel Bond was captured at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914. He arrived at Magdeburg prisoner of war (POW) camp in Saxony the following February. In the months that followed he completed a series of drawings and watercolours depicting the camp buildings as well as his fellow prisoners and the German guards.