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War images by Pooh bear illustrator go on show

The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey Pen and ink drawing of a soldier with a bandaged head and eye sitting on the ground beside an officer who is sitting on a box. He is leaning forward reading a letter to the soldier. Behind the officer is a slighly fainter drawing of another man lying back against the wall. He is wearing a soft hat, smoking a clay pipe and has his arm in a sling. The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey
One of the illustrations shows a British officer reading a letter to an injured soldier

Drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard have gone on display as part of a new exhibition.

Shepard's Great War Sketches are on loan from the University of Surrey Archives and The Shepard Trust.

The display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum runs until 31 August alongside some of his beloved children's illustrations and comic art.

A series of talks and a full programme of family events will run alongside it.

Ernest H Shepard is best known as the original illustrator for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and the 1931 edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.

He served as an officer in the First World War from 1915 and regularly documented the conflict in pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, and even watercolours.

The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey Pen and ink drawing of a First World War soldier. His cap is pushed back on his head and he is holding a black cat by its shoulders at arms length. He and the cat are staring at each other. The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey
More details about the exhibition can be found on the museum's website

The exhibition includes some of his war service kit, such as his Royal Garrison Artillery officer's forage cap and identification tags.

Dates for all the activities linked to the display are on the museum's website.

The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey Rough pencil self- portrait of the artist. He is sitting on something low and looking up to the left as if in cheerful conversation with someone we can't see.The Shepard Trust/University of Surrey
Another image on display is a pencil self-portrait of E.H. Shepard

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