chocolate box
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19780649-005
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Event
1914-1919 First World War
1914 Christmas - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Messrs Adshead and Ramsey
- Date Made December 1914
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Merchandising tools and equipment
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1914/12/01
- Latest 1914/12/25
- Inscription BELGIUM IMPERIUM BRITANNICUM JAPAN FRANCE RUSSIA SERVIA CHRISTMAS 1914 MONTENEGRO
- Materials Brass
- Rank Corporal
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Unit 22nd Canadian Infantry Battalion
- Person / Institution Subject, Princess Mary
- Measurements Height 3.1 cm, Length 8.6 cm, Width 13.0 cm
- Caption Life goes on
- Additional Information Soldiers coped. They supplemented their unappealing food with care packages from home. Cigarettes were a particularly welcome gift that calmed nerves and masked the stench of the trenches. Sleep was a precious commodity snatched during the day since much activity occurred at night when soldiers were ordered to set barbed wire in No Man's Land or raid enemy trenches.