sentences:  In 1917, with the experience of his limited series of "Types Vaudois" behind him, he set out to make a series of pencil and pastel portraits of "types" that were engaged with the military in the war that had started in 1914.Burnand was fascinated by the wide range of people from varied races from all over the world who had been drawn into the conflict on the side of the Allies.He was more interested in the lowly than the leaders and travelled about France to find his subjects in ports and barracks.