DRAWINGS by an unknown soldier from the Second World War that were meant for his child when he returned from the front line will go under the hammer at a Knutsford auction house this week.

The two albums – which contain more than 160 pages in total – are expected to fetch £2,5000 when auctioneers Wright Marshall, on Church Hill, put them up for sale on Tuesday, March 17.

The albums were drawn and scripted by the author as if a child, with the narrator of the stories being the camp cat.

They show life in a Royal Artillery camp and Wright Marshall believe they were produced for the child of the soldier.

The artist left them with the vendors uncle for safe keeping, when the soldier went on the invasion of northern France in 1944 but sadly he did not survive. The vendors uncle was in the Shropshire Yeomanry and when his uncle passed away, the vendor found them in his belongings.

Simon Nuttall, from Wright Marshall, said each picture showed an example of camp life.

"It's something that Nick took in on a valuation day and the gentleman who came in found it in his uncle's house," he added.

"The soldier never returned so we don't know who it was but it has a date written on it that says 1/09/43.

"There are around 163 loose leaf pages in total and each page has a drawing on and some have part of the story of camp life."

For more pictures from the two albums visit knutsfordguardian.co.uk