A Zeppelin Over Yarwell

 Just as we had finished laying out and displaying all the photographs and artefacts I had a phone call from an old man called John Lock who was born in Nassington and went to school in the village. He told me that he had some interesting medals and drawings that were done by his father during  WWI. They are mostly pen and ink humorous  drawings, but of a high standard.

It would seem that John Lock's  father Arnold Victor Lock emigrated to Canada in 1910. At the onset of WWI he enlisted into the army and became a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Canadian Forces.

He was working on railway construction at the front when the sidecar of the motor bike in which he was riding hit a pocket of gas and damaged his eyes. He was eventually discharged and returned to England to live in Nassington.

Currently all the drawings are in plastic folders but I am going to purchase some Miramex ones, so that the drawings do not incur further damage. We will not be displaying the originals but be taking photographs of them for display. I hope to meet John again as he was full of very interesting information about the village.