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WWI - sending personal effects home


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A fellow posted elsewhere the following explanation for the Johnson & Johnson metal box pictured here below:

"this is what my Grandmas brothers effects was sent back in from WW1 ,I guess they had to use something."

 

I sorta doubt it, but it does raise in my curiosity what kinds of containers might personal effects HAVE been sent home in?

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During WW1, personal effects of the fallen were sent to the NOK in a small canvas drawstring bag.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

The Wharfmaster

 

 

 

 

In Peace and War. US Merchant Marine.

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