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Capt J.M. Kendall, 1st Army School of S.O & S./ Linghem. Pencil drawing by Sgt Ernest Blaikley, 28th Bn, London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles), nd. Half length portrait of a man wearing glasses and a jacket, shirt and tie. Associated with the First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping, Linghem, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). Major H Hesketh-Prichard mentions a Captain Kendall of the 4th Warwickshire Regiment in his book ‘Sniping in France’. Kendall attended the school and then after a spell with the Royal Flying Corps as an Intelligence Officer, he joined the school, taking over ‘intelligence duties and map reading’. He notes that Kendall was a trained surveyor and an ‘artist of no ordinary merit’.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)