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Description: | The canteen is of wood, with metal rims at top and bottom. It is a flattened cylinder in shape. There is a metal stopper set into a raised wooden hole in the centre of the top. The stopper has a leather washer and a wooden peg attached via a small length of string to the stopper. The washer has a hole running right through it which the peg blocks - if it is removed, the user can drink through the hole. The canteen has leather carrying straps with metal buckles: two straps run around the body, with one up each side (all joined) and a long leather strap running over the shoulders. Originally, the straps would have been whitened. Before 'Blanco' was invented, pipe clay would have been used and there are traces of this still visible on the leather. The wood would have been turned a darker brown with a mixture of pipe clay and tobacco. The text 'WALSALL 46' is stamped onto the front. Canteens of this sort were used by the Militia - part-time infantry (precursers to the Territorial Army), from around the date of the 2nd Zulu War (1869 - 1870) until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 without changing design. This one probably dates from around 1900 - 1914. 'Walsall 46' refers to either a company or a platoon in the area.
Wooden canteen marked 'Walsall 46', used by Militia around 1900 - 1914 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Army Militia | Temporal: | 1900 - 1914 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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