1549: Corporal Albert Slatford (pencil drawing)

<p dir="ltr">Albert Slatford was born in 1879. His family thinks he volunteered near the beginning of the war, and joined the 13th and 9th Manchester regiment. He was a corporal in the 13th. His father had been a soldier before him, and Albert was born in the barracks. </p><p dir="ltr">He was always an amateur artist and family legend says that he attended night school art classes with Lowry as a fellow student. His favourite medium was watercolour. Included in his archive objects is a pencil drawing found after his son's death years later, folded amongst his other papers. It depicts an evocative scene in the trenches and is dated 12th August 1917. </p><p dir="ltr">The family knows nothing more about the picture, or Albert's war record. He did survive the war, and died eventually in 1945.</p>