WORLD WAR I - INDIAN AND BRITISH TROOPS
SARRUT (PAUL) British and Indian Troops in Northern France. War Sketches, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'a Madamemoiselle Cecil Mowbray.... Paul Sarrut, 21 Octobre 1919' on the colophon, 50 tinted lithographed plates, mounted as issued on brown backing paper (some loose), spotting or light spots to some, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio cloth, ties, folio, Arras, H. Delépine, [c.1919]
Footnotes:
Indian troops, mostly Sikhs from the Punjab and Lahore, arrived in France in September 1914 to serve in the British Indian Army, remaining there until they were moved to Mesopotamia in November 1915. Paul Sarrut, a French Liaison officer, had access to some of their and their Western counterparts' camps during which he made intimate sketches and portraits.

Provenance: Presentation inscription from the artist dated 21 October 1921.
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