Remarkable sketches of the front line by a WWWI stretcher bearer have come to light after 103 years.

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Pictured: Stretcher bearers in their teddy bear coats. Private Bernard Eyre Walker on the right.  <br />
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Remarkable sketches of the front line by a World War One stretcher bearer have come to light after 103 years.<br />
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They feature in Private Bernard Eyre Walker's mud splattered diaries which were salvaged from the ruins of a bombed British hospital on the Somme in 1918.<br />
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As the British were forced to fall back, a German soldier picked them up and after the war ended handed them to a British officer in Belgium.<br />
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They were sent to British headquarters and eventually returned to Bernard in Langdale, the Lake District, who kept hold of them for the rest of his life.