Single sheet, 235 x 175 mm. printed in blue on recto only. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Established by Canadian heiress Mary Elizabeth Plummer who set off across the ocean almost as soon as the conflict began. She remained for the duration of the war, based at the Shorncliffe Army Camp on the southeast tip of England. As honourary captain of the Canadian Field Comforts Commission, Plummer coordinated the distribution of donated items such as socks, underwear, tobacco, books, magazines and sweets to soldiers at the front. But what she and her small band of compatriots really accomplished was maintaining a thread of connection between ordinary Canadians on the home front, desperate for some way to help, and the men trying to survive in the bloody muck of the trenches. Each care package that arrived was a reminder that somewhere, far from the thunder of war, someone was thinking of them. Seller Inventory # 41458

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Title: The Canadian Field Comforts Commission.

Publisher: Shorncliffe: The Canadian Field Comforts Commission, c. 1915.

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