FRAME. Tribute from the "Permanent Blind Relief War Fund" to his ward Adrien, Julien Chalendard, sergeant in the 52nd Regiment of Alpine Chasseurs, wounded on 12 August 1916 at Maurepas, signed by the founder Georges a. Kessler, 38 X 54 cm, framed under glass. ABE George Kessler and Helen Keller founded the "British, French, Belgian Permanent Relief War Fund" in Paris in 1915, with the aim of helping soldiers with eye injuries during the First World War. The Fund opened a school and workshop for the blind in Belgium, and schools in France trained blind ex-servicemen in manual trades.