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WW I. French bayonet for Berthier rifle + Flask + leather belt
Lot including:
Bayonet for a Berthier rifle, in excavated condition.
Canteen without fabric lining.
Objects particularly emblematic of the Great War.
The canteen contained the "pinard" ration that helped soldiers endure the trenches. Every trick was used to increase the ration.
Some put beans in it to swell in water, others fired a blank cartridge into it with their Lebel rifle.
Sometimes it burst, sometimes it gave a little bonus.
Memories recounted by Maurice Guinhut, a soldier in 1914.
The braided belt is typical of the Great War. It was unregulated work done by recruits who knew how to work leather and sometimes had a lot of free time.