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‘Mess Chess Deux Amateurs Des Echecs. Dec: 1918’. Pencil drawing by Sgt Ernest Blaikley, 28th Bn, London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles), 1918. Two men playing chess, one man on the left is seated on a stool smoking a pipe and the one on the right is seated with one leg up on a bench. Back reads, ‘1st Army S.O.& S. School. Senlis./ Sgts: W. Mackay, Lovat’s Scouts, & S.Q.M.S. Pemberton, N.S. Yeomanry, playing chess in Sgts’ Mess.’. Associated with First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping, Senlis, World War One, Peace (1918-1921).

World War One (1914-1918)