Colonel Grayfoot and the staff of the 3rd Lahore Division, Calonne sur la Lys, France, 12 March 1915

Lithograph by and after Paul Sarrut (1882-1969), 1915.

One of 70 lithographs of sketches by Paul Sarrut, No 81 in a limited edition of 250 entitled 'British and Indian Troops in Northern France', published by H Delepine, Arras, 1920 (c).

In addition to the portraits of officers of the 3rd Division included in this study is one of Sarrut's fellow French interpreters, attached to the British Army. Lieutenant Max Philipon de la Roa had been born in Kensington in London in 1875 and was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in July 1919.

Camille Georges Paul Sarrut was born in Grenoble in May 1882. He was an artist and engraver who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1909, under the name Paul Sarrut. Having undertaken national service in 1903, he rejoined the French Army in 1914 as a corporal and served during the First World War (1914-1918). That same year he was posted to the British Army as a Military Liaison Officer and interpreter for the French, Indian and British troops on the Western Front. The National Army Museum holds a large collection of original sketches that Sarrut drew during the war, many of which he published in this set of lithographs in about 1920.