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Every soldier serving in South Africa at the turn of the Century, 1899-1900 was given a box of chocolates as a New Years gift from Queen Victoria. Many soldiers thought this present was so precious that the box was sent home as a treasured memento with the chocolates still inside. Queen Victoria also sent Christmas Puddings in small white porcelain bowls for Christmas the same year.
Following this in 1914, the first year of WWI, George V's only daughter Princess Mary, was responsible for a Gift Fund which provided every soldier and sailor serving for the Empire to receive a memento for Christmas. This was a massive project for its time with a major public fundraising effort contributing to tins of chocolates and tobacco with personal card and photo of the Princess being received by all the British troops including the ANZAC soldiers.
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