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Collage: beneath a ration ticket for bread for the week of March 25 to 31, 1918 is a 1915 five-Korona coin with two angels suspending a crown. The sides and top have a floral border. On either side of the coin is written in Hungarian A tejjel-mézzel folyó — kánaán — ból 1918 egy kenyér-czédula ára = öt korona From Canaan, the river of milk and honey, to rationing, in 1918 Czédula Bread cost her a crown. (Speculation: Kenyér-Czédula was a bakery. A web search shows at auction a menu for Étel Czédula, Czédula Food.] The ration ticket bears a large 8 and an overprinted V, and reads: kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány kg. 1.70 súlyú kenyérre vagy kg. 1.20 kenyér lisztre. Érvényes csak 1918 évi március hó 25-31 — ig terjed? negyedik hétre. kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány xxx való visszaélés kihágas! képez és rendörhatóságilag szigorúan büntettetik 8 Bread- or bread-flour-voucher 1.70 kg. of bread or 1.20 kg. of bread-flour Valid only in the year 1918, March 25 to 31 - for up to four weeks. Bread- or bread-flour-voucher [. . .] abuse is an offense! and shall be severely punished by the police. The card is hand-made on watercolor paper by Schima Martos. Dated September 12, 1918.more Collage: beneath a ration ticket for bread for the week of March 25 to 31, 1918 is a 1915 five-Korona coin with two angels suspending a crown. On either side of the coin is written in Hungarian
A tejjel-mézzel folyó — kánaán — ból 1918 egy kenyér-czédula ára = öt korona
From Canann, the river of milk and honey, to rationing: in 1918 Czédula Bread cost her a crown. (Speculation: Kenyér-Czédula was a bakery. A web search shows at auction a menu for Étel Czédula, Czédula Food.)
The ration ticket reads:
kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány
kg. 1.70 súlyú kenyérre vagy kg. 1.20 kenyér lisztre.
Érvényes csak 1918 évi március hó 25-31 — ig
terjed? negyedik hétre.
kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány xxx való visszaélés kihágas!
képez és rendörhatóságilag szigorúan büntettetik
8
Bread- or bread-flour-voucher
1.70 kg. of bread or 1.20 kg. of bread-flour
Valid only in the year 1918, March 25 to 31 for up to four weeks.
Bread- or bread-flour-voucher [. . .] abuse is an offense!
and shall be severely punished by the police.
The card is hand-made on watercolor paper by Schima Martos. Dated September 12, 1918.		 Hungarian. A tejjel-mézzel folyó — kánaán — ból 1918 egy kenyér-czédula ára = öt korona

From Canaan, the river of milk and honey, Canann, to rationing: in 1918 Czédula Bread cost her a crown. (Speculation: Kenyér-Czédula was a bakery. A web search shows at auction a menu for Étel Czédula, Czédula Food.]

The ration ticket bears a large 8 and an overprinted V, and reads:

kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány

kg. 1.70 súlyú kenyérre vagy kg. 1.20 kenyér lisztre.

Érvényes csak 1918 évi március hó 25-31 — ig

terjed? negyedik hétre.

kenyér — vagy kenyérliszt-utalvány xxx való visszaélés kihágas!

képez és rendörhatóságilag szigorúan büntettetik

8

Bread- or bread-flour-voucher

1.70 kg. of bread or 1.20 kg. of bread-flour

Valid only in the year 1918, March 25 to 31 months — for up to four weeks.

Bread- or bread-flour-voucher [. . .] abuse is an offense!

and shall be severely punished by the police.

Reverse: Dated September 12, 1918.		 Hungary, rationing, ration card, bread, 1918, March, 1918-03-25, 1918-03-31, currency, money, korona, watercolor, Martos, Schima, Schima Martos, Schima-Martos, artist, collage
An aerial observer or pilot in flight helmet and overcoat reports to a German General and his staff at a division's combat headquarters on March 21, 1918, the first day of Operation Michael, Germany's spring offensive, the first of five German drives in 1918. Text: Reverse (handwritten): 21. 3. 18. Division Combat HQmore An aerial observer or pilot in flight helmet and overcoat reports to a German General and his staff at a division's combat headquarters on March 21, 1918, the first day of Operation Michael, Germany's spring offensive, the first of five German drives in 1918. Reverse (handwritten):

21. 3. 18.

Division Combat HQ		 Operation Michael, 1918, 1918-03-21, March, Somme Offensive, the Somme Offensive, first German drive
Living and dead soldiers on the Somme in March, 1918. Operation Michael, the German spring offensive 1918 began on March 21. Men and barbed wire line the horizon; dead soldiers lie in the foreground. Text: Handwriten: Somme - März 18 Reverse: Handwriten: Somme ??? - März 18more Living and dead soldiers on the Somme in March, 1918. Operation Michael, the German spring offensive 1918 began on March 21. Men and barbed wire line the horizon; dead soldiers lie in the foreground. Handwriten: Somme - März 18

Reverse:

Handwriten: Somme ??? - März 18		 Somme, March, 1918, dead, dead bodies, Operation Michael, 1918-03-21, Operation Michael Somme dead
Headstone of Able Seaman J. Wilkinson at Martinpuich Cemetery, Martinpuich, France. Wilkinson died March 25, 1918, age 24. Text: [In/To] the Memory of R/257 Able Seaman J. Wilkinson, RNVR Drake Battn. R.N.D. 25th March 1918 Age 24 Who was buried by the enemy in Martinpuich German Cemetery No. 1 but whose grave is now lost Not forgotten by Father, Mother and all at homemore Headstone of Able Seaman J. Wilkinson at Martinpuich Cemetery, Martinpuich, France. Wilkinson died March 25, 1918, age 24. [In/To] the Memory of

R/257 Able Seaman

J. Wilkinson, RNVR

Drake Battn. R.N.D.

25th March 1918 Age 24



Who was buried by the enemy in Martinpuich German Cemetery No. 1 but whose grave is now lost



Not forgotten by Father, Mother and all at home		 headstone, Able Seaman J. Wilkinson, Able Seaman, J. Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Martinpuich Cemetery, Martinpuich, France, 1918, March, 1918-03-25