Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Cadbury’s Christmas Tin 1914, for wounded Soldiers and Sailors, 85 x 84mm., the lid bearing a coloured portrait of the King, containing the original slip bearing a Christmas greeting from Cadbury’s, a metal service wound stripe and a pipe, tin a little worn, generally in good condition, scarce (3)

As part of the war effort, Bournville presented a tin box of chocolate to every wounded soldier and sailor in British Military and Naval Hospitals both in Britain and France. Some 69,000 tins were produced and issued on Christmas Day 1914. Sold with copied research.