If you are interested in a soldier call or write for our New List of
It includes Suggestions for Presents for Soldiers at “Send-offs.” Suggestions for Presents for the Soldier at the front. A list of useful parcels for posting, including Cigarettes and Chocolates, or Useful Articles of Clothing. The Parcels range in price from 5s. upwards. There are a hundred to select from.
All Colours in Battalion Brooches kept in stock.
=Rothwells Ltd.=, Edward Street, BRISBANE.
We think of love, of garden plots and song, We dream our dreams to be--and gone-- While hell let loose, men speak and done Defend Verdun.
A glint of red, a glow of crimson flowers Uplift their heads to meet the morning hours, A glint of red--in battlefield the Hun Awaits Verdun.
O! Frailty of man who only knows When stormy wind across his garden blows! For glints of red a-shining in the sun Reflect Verdun.
AUSTRALIAN CHOCOLATE FOR AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS
Nothing so sustaining for winter conditions as GRIFFITHS’ Pure Chocolate. Packed in specially sealed tins ready for posting to the Front. Also in Solid Blocks. Post a Block with your next pair of socks.
Have you seen our SOLDIER’S HAMPER Lists? Write or ring us up (’Phone 3496) and we will post you one.
530 Queen Street, Petrie’s Bight, Brisbane.
Large Blocks of Chocolate also obtainable at Finney Isles & Co. Ltd., Allan & Stark Ltd., Etc.
What could be more comforting to our boys in the trenches than PHOTOGRAPHS of their “Ain Folk” from time to time.
Thos. Mathewson & Co., 184 Queen Street (next Finney Isles & Co.) Brisbane,
And secure a PORTRAIT to send in time for Christmas.
In addition to the General Comforts Funds, many individual funds have sprung up in the last twenty months for various units. Fêtes have been organised, entertainments given, arts and crafts sold, and business ventures started and continued with success to augment the funds of battalions and units for which different committees are exerting individual effort. It was felt that the soldiers would appreciate gifts all the more if they knew they were especially sent for their own particular unit, and regimental flags are made and sent overseas, comforts provided, and any special requests of the commanding officers are attended to wherever possible.