Image of Princess Mary gift tin, with sweets, for non-smokers, 1914 (metal) by English School, (20th century)

Princess Mary gift tin, with sweets, for non-smokers, 1914 (metal)

IMAGE number: NAM3037353
Image title: Princess Mary gift tin, with sweets, for non-smokers, 1914 (metal)
Artist: English School, (20th century) / English
Location: National Army Museum, London
Medium: metal
Date: 1914 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: Printed on inner sweet block: 'Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary Christmas Fund 1914'. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Indian and British troops serving on the Western Front in 1914 received Princess Mary boxes from the Royal Family. These were metal cases engraved with an outline of the princess and filled with chocolates, sweets, cigarettes and tobacco. Great efforts were made to distribute the gifts in time for Christmas, and huge demands were made on an already stretched postal service. More than 355,000 boxes were successfully delivered before 25 December. The boxes also included a picture card of Queen Mary and a copy of George V's greeting to the troops which stated 'May God protect you and bring you safely home'.
Photo credit: © National Army Museum / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: 1910s / 20th century / army / box / chocolate / United Kingdom / Europe / First World War (1914-1918) / war / princess mary christmas fund / sweets / royalist / princess / royal / military / gift tin / british empire / christmas / imperial / western front / non-smokers / non smoking / british / princess mary / non-smoker / present / patriotic / world war one / 1910s / chocolates / nationalist / non smoker / non smokers / gift / war / monarchist / non-smoking / morale / mary / ww1

Leave the work to our dedicated Account Managers

License details

Your details

* First name

* Last name

* Email

* Phone

* Country

Message

Asset - General information

	Dimension [pixels]	Dimension in 300dpi [mm]	File size [MB]
Large	4953 × 3522 px	419 × 298 mm	3.5 MB
Medium	1024 × 728 px	87 × 62 mm	1.2 MB

Field	Search term	Example
Asset title	title:	title:pony
Asset title and keywords	~	~pony
Asset description text	description:	description:london
Agency prefix	prfx: or $	prfx:lal or $LAL
Asset id	imageid:	imageid:250297 or imageid:[2500 TO 4000]
Agency name	coll:	coll:history
Medium	medium:	medium:oil
Century	century:	century:20th
Keywords	kw:	kw:dog
Artist name	artist: or ?	artist:monet or ?monet
Artist nationality	??	??French
Creator ID	creatorid:	creatorid:37
Location	loc: or @	loc:exeter or @exeter
Classification	class: or #	class:57 or #57. Use # for unclassified assets
Year	year:	year:1850 or year:[1700 TO 1800]

Contact us for further help