Item Reference: 001510
Category: First World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Earthenware rum jar marked ‘SRD’ for Supply Reserve Depot, though many soldiers joked it stood for ‘soon runs dry’
Date: 1914-1918
Further Information: Label on the base suggests it was produced in Chesterfield, though there was a large Supply Reserve Depot in Deptford Dockyard commandeered for military use at the outbreak of the Great War. It remained a large military supply depot until 1984, when the dockyard shut and became Convoys Wharf.
Links: Info under section ‘Supply Reserve Depot’, see postcards featuring trench art of the ubiquitous rum jar.
