A fascinating collection of cartoon paintings of German soldiers on the Western Front has been discovered - and shows a little-known humourous side to the Kaiser's war machine.
The images were drawn between 1914 and 1916 at the Somme and were for a senior German officer with a sense of humour.
The caricatures poke fun at the officer class and a strange recurring theme is the supplying of toilet rolls to soldiers.
The 80 coloured pictures are in pen, ink and gauche and were drawn by German artist Albert Heim.
Veronique Scorer, from auctioneers Bonhams, which is selling the archive, said: 'This is a fascinating record of life in World War One - from the side we usually don't see
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