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Carlos (Ernest Stafford, 1883-1917). 'Impressions of a Trench, pencil sketch, 1917 * Carlos (Ernest Stafford, 1883-1917). Impression of a Trench: Water Carrier, Impression in the Trench: The fat Corporal sticks, & A Happy Easter to me, 2am, 1917, three pencil sketches on paper, 18.5 x 10 cm (mount aperture) or similar, each framed QTY: (3) NOTE: Provenance: According to a separate typed note accompanying the lot: 'The drawings date from April to June of 1917 and are out of a sketch book he took with him to France inscribed 1917 on the cover'. Painter and war artist Ernest Stafford Carlos (1883-1917) initially joined the Queen's Westminster Rifles Regiment early in the First World War before being commissioned as a lieutenant, 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment ('The Buffs') in 1916. Whilst in the Artois sector in 1917, he completed several sketch books and a number of paintings containing his observations on life in the trenches. He was killed on June 14 1917 whilst assaulting a German position near Zillebeke, 'Buff's Bank', during the Battle of Messines, and is buried at Chester Farm Cemetery in Belgium. An early adherent of the scouting movement, Carlos produced a number of works on the theme of scouting prior to the war, of which the most famous is The Pathfinder (1913).