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

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Pictured: A sketch of Ypres from the western rammparts in Private Walker's diary.

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

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.

As the British were forced to fall back,...
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BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833.
Pic: SaraWoodall/BNPS

Pictured: A sketch of Ypres from the western rammparts in Private Walker's diary.

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

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.

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.

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.
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