Lot 772: World War I Art. A collection of 28 well-executed

World War I Art. A collection of 28 well-executed pen & ink drawings by Sydney Robert Jones (1881-1966), depicting army encampments, trenches, graves of soldiers of both sides, French towns and Chateaux including Arras, Nelse, Lucheux, etc., ruined buildings, views of Field Marshal Haig's HQ at Montreuil, Royal Flying Corps biplanes at the aerodrome at Estress-en-Chaussee, a cellar a St Cren in which the artist lived for a period, some pieces of a more stylised nature captioned 'headpiece', all signed and dated 1917 or 1918, some with army censor stamp and official markings to the versos, including both landscape and portrait format views, sheet size 340 x 253 mm, some laid onto card, together with two unrelated drawings by Jones and an unrelated book illustrated by him. Sydney R. Jones (1881-1966) studied at the Birmingham School of Art and worked for The Studio and The Sphere, as well as illustrating numerous books. These illustrations may have been used in the 1919 publication 'England in France: Sketches mainly with the 59th Division' by Charles Vince. It seems that during the war his artistic skills were utilised by the army as some sheets have Jone's wartime rank written to verso as 2nd Lieutenant R.E., Field Survey Battalion R.E. (31)