so I sent him information and illustrations from The Wind in the Willows. "He added the willows, the countryside and the stream and it turned out to be a magnificent frontage for the property.

One of the illustrations shows a British officer ... 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 ...