Provenance: Sebastian Walker, Mirabel Cecil, A gift from Walker to his sisterRedfern Gallery, Wenlock Fine Art, John Constable, July 2008

Signed and dated l.r.:'Keith Vaughan/44' 

Wash over pen and ink, 17.8 by 12.7 cm

Keith Vaughan was posted in early October 1943 to Eden Camp, near Malton, a small country town between York and Scarborough. It was Prisoner of War Camp number 83, built in 1942 by Italian POW's and covered eight acres with forty-five single storey huts, of which eighteen were in the prisoners compound. By the time Vaughan arrived the prisoners were mostly German. Vaughan was the only Conscientious objector  employed in the camp. He did no guard or escort duties but worked as an Orderly Room clerk with the rank of private and a wage of ten shillings per week. At first he lived in the huts with the other men and made few barrack-life sketches as he had done at Codford but he soon volunteered to go on almost permanent night duty, sleeping in the office in case the telephone should ring.

Vaughan's horizons were limited to how far he could walk, hitch a lift, or travel on rural buses so he usually sought subjects near the camp. Vaughan remained at Eden Camp throughout 1944 and this drawing of five soldiers on the march was drawn there.