2nd Lieutenant Leslie Goold, 1915

Pencil sketch signed and dated lower right 'Jagger/ 31.10.15', by 2nd Lietenant Charles Sargeant Jagger, 1915.

On the outbreak of war in 1914 Jagger was studying art in Rome, having won a prestigious scholarship. He returned home and joined the Artists' Rifles. In 1915 he was commissioned into The Worcestershire Regiment and went on to serve at Gallipoli where he made several sketches of his fellow officers, including this one of Lieutenant Leslie Lant Goold who went on to win a Military Cross in France in 1917.

One of three pencil drawings by Jagger of Lt Leslie Goold.