A mess kit, is designed to be used over portable cooking apparatus. A mess tin can be thought of as a portable version of a saucepan, intended primarily for boiling …
Original Thermos made of iron and glass. Hard biscuit signed at Camp Borden in 1940. Solidified Methylated Spirit (fire starter fluid), Tin of Emergency Rations The biscuit was found in …
Cereal Bar, Chocolate Bar, Canadian Army emergency Ration, Emergency Food Packet RP-2. Emergency rations were carried by each soldier to be used while in combat when feeding from rear locations …
Canned food kits, Tin of Peanut butter, Fig pastry, tube of butter, Can opener, Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Coffee Mate. Items would be carried by individual soldiers for use in combat …
Breakfast / Lunch package, Water Bottles, Tube of peanut butter, cookies, chiclets, lifesavers. These individual packs were carried by the soldiers for use during combat or periods in which feeding …
Apple Slices, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Hershey Chocolate Bar, Tube of Cheese Spread and Chiclets. Dinner items were in sealed pouches. The items were carried by the soldiers to be …
Officer’s Service Tunic 1943, made by Simpsons, Waterbury Button Co. made in the USA Manufacturer Unknown St. Andrew’s Cadet Corps Button, J.R. Gaunt & Sons, Birmingham White Shell Tunic Button, …
In the summer of 2007, members of the recruits in the summer training programme of the 48th Highlanders participated as extras in the production of the movie Passchendaele. These recruits …
A 48th Highlanders recruit in Canadian uniform with horse on the set of the movie Passchendaele. The mud and deep water is typical of that experienced by Canadian troops and …
A gray metal, likely steel, Nepalese kukri blade stored in a black hard leather scabbard, with both being curved near the middle, and belonged to Colonel Gerald Morphy Malone, MC, …
Pte Peart with family – brother Harvey V to the left and his mother Anne in the centre. Pte Peart was killed in action on 4 December 1944.
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