rum jug
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20040092-001
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation Supply Reserve Depot
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Pearson & Co
- Date Made 1919 or earlier
- Place of Use Continent - Europe, Country - United KingdomContinent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Merchandising tools and equipment
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1819/01/01
- Latest 1919/12/31
- Inscription (on jug/sur cruche) S.R.D. (underneath the jug/en dessous de la cruche) PEARSON & CO / THE POTTERIES / WHITTINGTON MOOR / No. CHESTERFIELD
- Materials Ceramic
- Service Component British Expeditionary ForceCanadian Expeditionary Force
- Measurements Height 33.0 cm, Outside Diameter 16.8 cm
- Caption Rum Jug
- Additional Information Rum was delivered in clay or ceramic jugs marked S.R.D., for “Supply Reserve Depot”. Soldiers often created alternative and humorous acronyms such as “Service Rum Diluted,” “Sergeants Rarely Deliver,” and “Soon Runs Dry.”
- Caption Rum Jar
- Additional Information Overproof rum was distributed liberally to Canadian front-line soldiers during the First World War. Stored in jars like this, soldiers received a big gulp in the morning, and often another before a battle. Rum helped soldiers cope with the strain of war. Rum, wrote Lieutenant Claude Williams of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, should be "regarded more as a medicine than a beverage."