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First World War Army Rations
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A Painted WW1 Army Ration Biscuit

Staff Sergeant Charles Shaw from Sandal, Yorkshire, and a comrade decorated this biscuit while serving in France with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at some point between 1914 and 1916

 

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