There’s a surprising dearth of drawings available to publish, considering the many hundreds, probably thousands, that would have been made by both the Strackés and the Arendzens over the course of decades. If anyone has any drawings that I could use on the website, please get in touch.
Pencil drawing (1923) of Edwin Campion Vaughan by Leo Arendzen.
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Lieutenant Edwin Campion Vaughan, 1897-1931, fought in the First World War and was awarded a Military Cross for bravery. He kept a diary which was published in 1981 under the title “Some Desperate Glory”.
In a grotesque irony, having survived many battles, including Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres), where only fifteen out of his company of ninety men survived, he died in 1931 as the result of a medical mistake.