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Tuesday 18 June 2024

Advert In “T.P.’s Journal Of Great Deeds Of The Great War”, 24 October 1914.





No fuss or bother with packing.

You simply send your order by letter, ’phone or wire
to Harrods’ specifying HAMPER NUMBER ONE or
HAMPER NUMBER TWO (or both), and the following goods
to the value of One Sovereign are despatched without delay straight to the Firing Line.

[Editor: A Sovereign is a British Gold Coin valued at £1].



HAMPER NUMBER ONE.
(One Sovereign).

1lb Chocolate (Harrods).
3 Tins Oxo Cubes.
2 Potted Meats.
1 Ivelcon.


1 Brand’s Essence Chicken.
1 Brand’s Essence Beef.
100 Cigarettes. Best. Flat Box.
¼lb Tobacco (compressed).
1 Packet Boracic Powder (disinfects cuts).


1 Tube Vaseline.
1 Tin Coffee and Milk, or Cocoa and Milk.
1 Plum Cake.
1 Tin Danish Butter.1 Pipe.
Bromo Toilet Paper.
Matches.



HAMPER NUMBER TWO.
(One Sovereign).

1 Pair Gloves.
1 Pair Socks.
1 Undervest.
1 Pair Pants.
3 Handkerchiefs.
1 Pair Braces.
1 Woollen Scarf.
1 Balaclava Cap.

The Sovereign covers cost of packing and postage.

HARRODS Ltd.
Richard Burbidge,
Managing Director,
London, S.W.

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