World War One scrapbooks fetch £9,600 at auction
A diary and sketch book recording life in the trenches of World War One has made £9,600 at auction.
Lieutenant Kenneth Edwin Wootton served with the Tank Corps on the western front, being decorated for bravery.
The volumes contain contemporary entries as well as reflections on what he had seen, along with drawings and paintings of battlefields and tanks.
Hansons Auctioneers, from Derbyshire, said they were special in giving "the spirit" of the war.
Mr Wootton, who died 35 years ago, wrote of both the horrors and the camaraderie of the trenches....
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Lieutenant Kenneth Edwin Wootton served with the Tank Corps on the western front, being decorated for bravery.
The volumes contain contemporary entries as well as reflections on what he had seen, along with drawings and paintings of battlefields and tanks.
Hansons Auctioneers, from Derbyshire, said they were special in giving "the spirit" of the war.
Mr Wootton, who died 35 years ago, wrote of both the horrors and the camaraderie of the trenches....