Campaign
Equipment, by
Mapp and Webbe, a
company,
With three London
addresses;
Of Oxford, Regent
and Queen
Victoria Street -
also includes
Ten global
addresses,
As far as Rio de
Janeiro.
A varied stock is
stated,
To include
essential articles,
For any officer,
On active
service.
Their Campaign
Equipment
Is quite ready,
For all rough use
-
Being of good
serviceable quality.
An open pack is diagrammed,
Made from a
pigskin roll-up -
For a good
dressing case.
Dependent on
budget,
The officer can
spend up to
£6.6s for full
kit - for this
He will get all
his needs.
An ebony
hairbrush,
Comb and cloth
brush.
Jar with shaving
brush,
Jar of tooth and
nail brus-
Soap jar,
Box of tooth
powder,
Buttonhook,
A strap in case,
And pig skin stud
box –
Pair of Hollow
Ground razors,
Nail file, nail
scissors,
A knife and maybe
Most importantly, a
corkscrew
For bottles of
French wine.
Such sturdiness
is proved,
With much lost
equipment
Buried in the
mud -
To be
archaeologically
Dug up,
A 100 or so years
later.
by Jamie Mann.
Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 16 November 2014).
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