Brunell: ruins on the road to Nervesa, Piave sector, December 1918 Brooks transferred to the western front, and developed a drink problem that would eventually lead to him losing his royal warrant and OBE. Brunell meanwhile went back to photographing engines, motorbikes and cars, as he had before the war. He later admitted that he had been ‘an innocent’ before his trip to Italy – and that the war took away that innocence