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ticket, meat

human history
  • Other Name

    meat ration ticket

    Staff Captain Robert Gardiner Sellar, Royal Field Artillery, 18 Bn, Indian Division

  • Description

    "Meat ticket as issued to British troops for obtaining their meat ration at Baghdad." WW1

    Collected by Staff Captain RG Sellar, Royal Field Artillery, 18 Bn, Indian Division

    printed: MEAT TICKET / No 201 /Authority to supply "18th Dn RFA with two Kilos Meat / This Ticket to be returned to the Deputy Military Governor's Office by the Salesman." Dated 8/2/1918

  • Place
    Mesopotamia/Southwest Asia/Asia
  • Associated Place

    Mesopotamia/Southwest Asia/Asia

  • Accession Date
    22 Apr 1921
  • Other Id

    W0150 (war)

  • Department

    History

    War History

Images and documents

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira,W0150
  • Primary Maker

     [British Military] (Issued by)

  • Place
    Mesopotamia/Southwest Asia/Asia
  • Date
    1918
  • Associated Notes

    "Meat ticket as issued to British troops for obtaining their meat ration at Baghdad" WW1. Collected by Staff Captain Robert Gardiner Sellar, Royal Field Artillery, 18 Bn, Indian Division.

    Robert Gardiner Sellar was in Hawera practising as a solicitor before he left for England, for health reasons, in May 1915. In England, he took up a commission as Lieutenant with the Royal Field Artillery. After being wounded in France he was attached to a unit serving in Mesopotamia and Persia, achieving the rank of Captain. He served with the 18th Divisional Indian Artillery (formed 1917) and later served on the North West Frontier before returning to New Zealand in 1919. He initially returned to Hawera before taking up legal practise in Auckland in 1920.

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
  • Associated Person

     Captain R G Sellar

     Royal Artillery

  • Associated Place

    Mesopotamia/Southwest Asia/Asia

  • Associated Date
    1918
  • Period

    World War 1, 1914-18/Wars

  • Subject Category

    food rations/wars

  • Classification

    card, ration

    exchange medium

    Coupon, Ration

    Coupon

    Exchange Media

    08 Communication Artifacts

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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