The exhibition is free and is in the Inner Street, displaying the work of the soldier, artist, writer and diplomat.
Colonel Burkhardt was the grandfather of local resident Peter Burkhardt, who has loaned the collection during Armed Forces Week.
The exhibition shows the colonel’s use of watercolour in war-torn Northern France and the peace that followed.
Valentine Rodolphe Burkhardt was born in England in 1883 to a Swiss father and an American mother.
He entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1902.
He won a prize for freehand drawing and was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1903.
In 1929, his correspondence as 'Custard the Mule' began.
His friend and second-in-command had two daughters nicknamed Merrie and Bright, who would have Sunday lunch in the officers’ mess and visited the stables where the mules were kept. One week one of the daughters could not see Custard and wrote him a letter.
Col. Burkhardt responded as Custard with a letter and drawing, which continued and has since been made into a book, called Confessions of Custard.
Members of the Royal British Legion Guernsey welfare team will also be present throughout the exhibition and will be available to offer support, guidance and advice to any veterans, serving personnel or their families who may wish to speak with them.
The exhibition is open today between 10am and 4pm and tomorrow 10am until 2pm.
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