Description:A novelty postcard of comforts for the troops with the following rhyme: “Cakes and smokes that travelled miles / reached sunny France brought sunny smiles”.
A number of generic novelty postcards were created so that the supplier or writer of the card could insert the location of the Camp they were stationed at. In this case Rugeley is mentioned on the parcel label in the lower left corner. Many novelty or comic postcards such as this were produced for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers that passed through the Army training camps across the country during the First World War.
On the reverse is printed: “A parcel from Home”. (From a special sketch by one of the 8th Siege Battery R.G.A. – somewhere in France).